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warren
English
Etymology
From Middle English warenne, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French warenne (compare Old French guarenne, garenne (“game-park”), probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjan? (“ward off, defend against”); compare also Old French warir, guarir, a borrowing from this Germanic root). Alternatively from Gaulish *warrenn? (“enclosed area”), from *warros (“stick, post”), Proto-Celtic *warr? (“post, prop”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
warren (plural warrens)
- The system of burrows where rabbits live.
- (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
- (archaic) The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
- (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
Derived terms
- Dawlish Warren
- free warren
- rabbit warren
- warrener
Translations
References
- warren at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Warner, warner
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?r?n
Noun
warren
- Plural form of war
Middle English
Verb
warren
- Alternative form of werren
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trump
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??mp/
- (some accents) IPA(key): [t????mp]
- Rhymes: -?mp
- Homophone: Trump
Etymology 1
Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe.
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- Diamonds were declared trump(s).
- (card games) A playing card of that suit.
- He played an even higher trump.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (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.
- 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, pg 19 and 163
- Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.
- Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Decker to this entry?)
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
Usage notes
For the top-ranking suit as a whole, American usage favors the singular trump and British usage the plural trumps.
Translations
Verb
trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)
- (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.
- (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3
- to trick or trump mankind
- 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3
- (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- 1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists
- Authors have been trumped upon us.
- 1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists
- (transitive) To supersede.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
- (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
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
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”) from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin.
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)
- (archaic) A trumpet.
- 1611, King James 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
- 1798, Joseph Hopkinson, “Hail, Columbia”:
- Sound, sound the trump of fame,
- 1611, King James Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52:
- (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
Derived terms
Verb
trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
Etymology 3
Shortening of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trump, jeu tromp, jeu trompe (a trump, or toy, to play with).
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.
Further reading
- Trump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
trump From the web:
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