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CARDHOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cardhouse mean?
• CARDHOUSE (noun)
The noun CARDHOUSE has 1 sense:
1. an unstable construction with playing cards
Familiarity information: CARDHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unstable construction with playing cards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
card-house; cardcastle; cardhouse; house of cards
Context example:
he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed
Hypernyms ("cardhouse" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
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