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card-room

card-room noun: a room set aside for playing card games in.

Noun

card-room (plural card-rooms)

  1. A room set aside for playing card games in.
    • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

Forms of card-room

pluralcard-rooms

Origin of card-room

From card + room.

Questions about card-room

What does card-room mean?
Card-room means a room set aside for playing card games in.
What part of speech is card-room?
Card-room is a noun.
What is the plural of card-room?
The plural of card-room is card-rooms.

Words near card-room in the dictionary

  1. card-house
  2. card-houses
  3. card-index
  4. card-reader
  5. card-readers
  6. card-room
  7. card-rooms
  8. card-sharp
  9. card-sharps
  10. Carda
  11. cardabiodontid

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