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say it: truhmp
trump is a verb and noun meaning "produce a sound as if from a trumpet". It carries 7 recorded senses.
produce a sound as if from a trumpet
a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
“the ace of trumps is a sure winner”
(card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand
“clubs were declared trumps”
“a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led”
card game
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trump come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.