trump
/tɹʌmp/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms trumps trumping trumped
- noun (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. “Diamonds were declared trump(s).”
- noun (card games) A playing card of that suit. “He played an even higher trump.”
- noun (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- noun (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- noun An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- noun A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- verb (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump. “He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.”
- verb (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- verb (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- verb (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- verb (transitive) To supersede. “In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.”
- verb (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
- noun (archaic) A trumpet.
- noun (UK, colloquial) A fart.
- noun The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- verb To blow a trumpet.
- verb (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To fart. “And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.”
- noun (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun A surname from English.
Synonyms
outsmart ruff clown cheat Jew's harp DJT The Donald Cheeto Dementia Don Diaper Don Dirty Donald Donald Duck Donald Trumpet Don Snoreleone Don the Con Dozy Don Drumpf Dump Forrest Trump Frump trump card cornet horn trumpet outdo outflank best scoop trump out
Etymology
Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe. If so, it is a doublet of triumph and thriambus. Compare German Trumpf.
From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”), from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin. Doublet of tulumba and tromp.
Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.
Ellipsis of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trompe (literally “toy trumpet”).
* English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”).
* German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections)
* The place in Baltimore county was named after settler Simeon Van Trump.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; - -used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
- verb To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).
- noun A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.
- noun An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; --called also ruff. Decker.
Etymology [OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis.]
Etymology [Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trump”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details