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playing-card

playing-card is the dated form of playing card.

Meaning of playing card

Noun

playing card (plural playing cards)

  1. A piece of specially prepared card stock or thin material bearing identifying symbols such as a number and suit, used primarily for card games, and generally forming part of a deck of such cards.
    Synonyms:
    card

Forms of playing-card

pluralplaying-cards

Questions about playing-card

What is playing-card the dated form of?
Playing-card is the dated form of playing card.

Words near playing-card in the dictionary

  1. playing with a full deck
  2. playing with edge-tools
  3. playing with edged tools
  4. playing with fire
  5. playing with house money
  6. playing-card
  7. playing-cards
  8. playingly
  9. playings
  10. playland
  11. playlands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playing-card (page history and authors); playing card (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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