trump

See also Trump

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /tɹʌmp/, X-SAMPA: /tr\Vmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology 1

Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s)).

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (US, in the singular, card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
2. (UK, in the plural, card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

   Diamonds were declared trumps.

3. (card games) A playing card of that suit.

   He played an even higher trump.

4. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
5. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.

Translations

suit that outranks all others

• Albanian: atu (sq)
• Arabic: ورقة رابحة (ar) (wáraqa raabiHa) f
• Bashkir: уйын (uyïn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王牌 (cmn) (wángpái)

• Czech: trumfy (cs) m pl
• Dutch: troef (nl)
• Finnish: valtti (fi)
• French: atout (fr) m
• Galician: trunfo (gl) m

• Georgian: კოზირი (ka) (koziri)
• German: Trumpf (de) m
• Hungarian: adu (hu), tromf (hu)
• Japanese: 切札 (ja), 切り札 (ja) (きりふだ, kirifuda) (トランプ (ja) (toranpu) means "playing card")
• Jèrriais: atout m
• Maori: tānapu (mi)
• Portuguese: trunfo (pt) m
• Russian: козырь (ru) (kózyr') m
• Spanish: pinte (es) m, triunfo (es) m

playing card of that suit

• Albanian: atu (sq)
• Arabic: ورقة رابحة (ar) (wáraqa raabiHa) f
• Armenian: հաղթաթուղթ (hy) (hałtʿatʿułtʿ)
• Bashkir: уйын (uyïn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王牌 (cmn) (wángpái)

• Czech: trumf (cs) m
• Danish: trumf (da) c
• Dutch: troef (nl)
• Finnish: valttikortti (fi), valtti (fi)
• French: atout (fr), carte maîtresse (fr) f
• Galician: trunfo (gl) m

• German: Trumpf (de) m
• Japanese: 切札 (ja), 切り札 (ja) (きりふだ, kirifuda)
• Jèrriais: atout m
• Portuguese: trunfo (pt) m
• Romanian: atu (ro) n
• Russian: козырная карта (ru) (kozýrnaja/kozyrnája kárta) f, козырь (ru) (kózyr') m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адут (sh) (adut) m

  Roman: adut (sh) m

• Slovene: adut (sl)
• Spanish: pinte (es) m, triunfo (es) m

something that gives one an advantage

• Albanian: atu (sq)
• Arabic: ورقة رابحة (ar) (wáraqa raabiHa) f
• Armenian: հաղթաթուղթ (hy) (hałtʿatʿułtʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王牌 (cmn) (wángpái)

• Czech: trumf (cs) m
• Dutch: troef (nl)

• Finnish: valtti (fi)
• French: atout (fr) m
• German: Trumpf (de) m
• Japanese: 切札 (ja), 切り札 (ja) (きりふだ, kirifuda)
• Portuguese: trunfo ((m))
• Russian: козырь (ru) (kózyr') m, козырная карта (ru) (kozýrnaja/kozyrnája kárta) f

Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. (transitive, card games) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).

   He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.

2. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
3. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
4. (transitive) To supersede.

   In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

5. (intransitive, UK) To flatulate.

   And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

Synonyms

• (To play a trump card on another suit): ruff
• (To get the better of a competitor): outsmart

Coordinate terms

• (To play a trump card on another suit): underruff, overruff

Translations

To play a trump on a card of another suit

• Dutch: overtroeven (nl)
• Finnish: ruffata (fi)
• French: couper (fr)

• Galician: trunfar (gl)
• Jèrriais: coper
• Maori: hai (mi), tānapu (mi)

To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor

• Finnish: päihittää (fi)

Derived terms

• the last trump
• no trump
• overtrump
• trump card
• trump out
• trump up
• under trump

Etymology 2

From Middle English trompe "trumpet" from Old French trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba "trumpet". Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", Middle Dutch tromme "drum", Middle Low German trumme "drum". More at trumpet, drum.

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (obsolete) A trumpet.
   • Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52

     In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible

Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. To blow a trumpet.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif Bible (Matt. vi. 2) to this entry?)

External links

• Trump in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.