COURT CARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does court card mean? 

• COURT CARD (noun)
  The noun COURT CARD has 1 sense:

1. one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

  Familiarity information: COURT CARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURT CARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

court card; face card; picture card

Hypernyms ("court card" is a kind of...):

playing card (one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court card"):

jack; knave (one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince)

king (one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king)

queen (one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen)