trump
Meanings
noun
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- A playing card of that suit.
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
verb
- To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- To supersede.
- To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
noun
- A trumpet.
- A fart.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
verb
- To blow a trumpet.
- To fart.
noun
- Synonym of Jew's harp.
name
- A surname from German.
- Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality, and current president of the United States of America (2017–2021, 2025–present).
- A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
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Etymology
Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe. If so, it is a doublet of triumph and thriambus. Compare German Trumpf.
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