PACK OF CARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pack of cards mean? 

• PACK OF CARDS (noun)
  The noun PACK OF CARDS has 1 sense:

1. a pack of 52 playing cards

  Familiarity information: PACK OF CARDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACK OF CARDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pack of 52 playing cards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

deck; deck of cards; pack of cards

Hypernyms ("pack of cards" is a kind of...):

pack (a complete collection of similar things)

Meronyms (members of "pack of cards"):

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

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

suit (playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color)

 Context examples 

I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your rubber after all.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)