spades

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spādz, IPA: /speɪdz/, X-SAMPA: /speIdz/
• Rhymes: -eɪdz

Noun

spades

1. Plural form of spade
2. One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
3. A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

Derived terms

• ace of spades
• in spades
• jack of spades
• king of spades
• knave of spades
• queen of spades

Related terms

• spade

Translations

spade — see spade

suit of playing cards

• Translingual: ♠, ♤
• Arabic: البستوني (ar) (al-bastūni) m
• Bulgarian: пика (bg) f (pika), пики (bg) pl (piki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑桃 (cmn) (hēitáo)

• Czech: piky (cs) pl
• Danish: spar (da) c
• Dutch: schoppen (nl) pl
• Esperanto: piko (eo)
• Finnish: pata (fi) sg
• French: pique (fr) m
• German: Pik (de) n, Pique (de) n
• Hungarian: pikk (hu)
• Italian: picche (it) f pl

• Japanese: スペード (ja) (supēdo)
• Latin: hastae (la) f pl
• Lithuanian: pikai (lt) m pl, vynai (lt) m pl
• Luxembourgish: Schëppen (lb) pl
• Macedonian: пик (mk) (pik) m, лист (mk) (list) m
• Marathi: (ispik)
• Polish: pik (pl) m
• Portuguese: espadas (pt) m pl
• Romanian: pică (ro) f, frunză (ro) f
• Russian: пики (ru) (píki) f pl , пика (ru) (píka) f 
• Spanish: picas (es) f pl
• Swahili: shupaza (sw)
• Swedish: spader (sv) n
• Turkish: maça (tr)

card game

• Latin: hastae (la) f pl

• Polish: piki (pl) pl

See also

• (playing card suits) card suit/playing card suit; clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades ^{(Category: en:Card games)}

Verb

spades

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spade.

Anagrams

• passed

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Swedish

Noun

spades

1. indefinite genitive singular of spade