trump
Because it is a word with a single syllable, trump is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oftrump
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
Example: "Diamonds were declared trump(s)."
- A playing card of that suit.
Example: "He played an even higher trump."
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
Example: "He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped."
- To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- To supersede.
Example: "In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues."
- To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
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