spades

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spādz, IPA: /speɪdz/, 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.

Translations

spade — see spade

suit of playing cards

Translingual: ♠, ♤ Arabic: البستوني (al-bastūni) m. Bulgarian: пика (bg) f., пики (bg) pl. Czech: piky (cs) pl. Danish: spar (da) c. Dutch: schoppen (nl) pl. Esperanto: piko (eo) Finnish: pata (fi) sg. French: pique m. sg. German: Pik (de) n., Pique (de) n. Hungarian: pikk (hu) Italian: picche (it) f. pl.

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. 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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• spade
• in spades

See also

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

Verb

spades

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

Anagrams

• passed

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Swedish

Noun

spades

1. indefinite possessive singular of spade