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Trump   /trəmp/   Listen
Trump

noun
1.
A playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps.  Synonym: trump card.
2.
(card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand.  "A trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led"
3.
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.  Synonyms: cornet, horn, trumpet.
verb
(past & past part. trumped; pres. part. trumping)
1.
Produce a sound as if from a trumpet.
2.
Get the better of.  Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, scoop.
3.
Play a trump.  Synonym: ruff.
4.
Proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare.  Synonym: trump out.



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"Trump" Quotes from Famous Books



... come With all its marshalled honours, trump and drum, To proffer you the captaincy of some Resounding exploit, that shall fill Man's pulses with commemorative thrill, And be a banner to far battle days For truths unrisen upon untrod ways, What would your answer be, O heart ...
— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton
... he said in a dazed, dreary sort of way, 'I'll see, but I want to play the last card I have in my hand before I go. It's a trump card perhaps.' ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps
... and Christ has made the atonement and fitted the mansions in the New Jerusalem, then they will be his chosen ones to execute the "judgment written." After this, in the order of events, the Lord Jesus "will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God," &c. When God speaks from Jerusalem, then, I believe the "wise will understand" how long it will be before Jesus comes. "The times and seasons are with the Father." I believe that the Scriptures most clearly teach Christ's second coming at the feast ...
— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates
... she lives. I marconied her an hour after he'd said that he would come to us after London, and we'd begin our motor tour from Carlisle. 'Twas only taking Time by the forelock to tell him we had been invited. It was bad luck poor Mrs. Keeling being ill when she got my wire, and she really was a trump to turn out and go ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin: And nobody could enough admire The tall man and his quaint attire. Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire, Starting up at the trump of doom's tone, Had walked this ...
— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey


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