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trump

1 American  
[truhmp] / trʌmp /

noun

  1. Cards.

    1. any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.

    2. (used with a singular verb) Often trumps the suit itself.

  2. Informal: Older Use. a fine, admirable person.

verb (used with object)

  1. Cards. to take with a trump.

  2. to excel; surpass; outdo.

verb (used without object)

  1. Cards.

    1. to play a trump.

    2. to take a trick with a trump.

verb phrase

  1. trump up to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation; fabricate.

    Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him.
trump 2 American  
[truhmp] / trʌmp /

noun

  1. a trumpet.

  2. the sound of a trumpet.

verb (used without object)

  1. to blow a trumpet.

Trump 3 American  
[truhmp] / trʌmp /

noun

  1. Donald J(ohn), born 1946, 45th president of the United States 2017–21.

  2. Melania Melanija Knavs, born 1970, U.S. First Lady 2017–21 (wife of Donald J. Trump).

trump 1 British  
/ trʌmp /

noun

  1. Also called: trump card. 

    1. any card from the suit chosen as trumps

    2. this suit itself; trumps

  2. Also called: trump card.  a decisive or advantageous move, resource, action, etc

  3. informal a fine or reliable person

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verb

  1. to play a trump card on (a suit, or a particular card of a suit, that is not trumps)

  2. (tr) to outdo or surpass

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trump 2 British  
/ trʌmp /

noun

  1. a trumpet or the sound produced by one

  2. the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment

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verb

  1. (intr) to produce a sound upon or as if upon the trumpet

  2. (tr) to proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare

  3. slang (intr) to expel intestinal gas through the anus

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trump Idioms  

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Other Word Forms

  • trumpless adjective

Etymology

Origin of trump1

First recorded in 1520–30; unexplained variant of triumph

Origin of trump2

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English noun tromp(e), troump, from Old French tromp(e), tronpe; probably of Germanic origin; compare Old High German trumpa, Old Norse trumba “trumpet”

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