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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
trump1 /trʌmp/USA pronunciation   n. 
    [countable]
  1. Games
    • any playing card of a suit that for a time outranks the other suits.
    • Often, trumps. [plural] the suit itself.
  2. Informal Termsa fine person.

v. 
  1. Gamesto play or take (a card) with a trump: [~ + object]He led a queen and so she trumped it.[no object]On the next round he trumped.
  2. to outdo;
    surpass;
    excel:[~ + object]Although the prosecutor seemed to have an advantage with her expert witness, the defense attorney trumped her by bringing in a more qualified expert.
  3. trump up, [~ + up + object] to make up (an accusation, etc.), esp. as a lie:They trumped up charges against him.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
trump1  (trump),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Games[Cards.]
    • any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
    • Often, trumps. (used with a sing. v.) the suit itself.
  2. Informal Termsa fine person;
    brick.

v.t. 
  1. Games[Cards.]to take with a trump.
  2. to excel;
    surpass;
    outdo.

v.i. 
  1. Games[Cards.]
    • to play a trump.
    • to take a trick with a trump.
  2. trump up, to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation;
    fabricate:Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him.
  • unexplained variant of triumph 1520–30
trump′less, adj. 

trump2 (trump),USA pronunciation [Literary.]
n. 
  1. Slang Termsa trumpet.
  2. Slang Termsits sound.

v.i. 
  1. Slang Termsto blow a trumpet.
  • Old French tromper, derivative of trompe
  • Old High German trumpa, variant of trumba trumpet; (verb, verbal) Middle English trompen
  • Old French
  • (noun, nominal) Middle English trompe 1250–1300

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
trump /trʌmp/ n
  1. Also called: trump card
    • any card from the suit chosen as trumps
    • this suit itself; trumps
  2. Also called: trump card a decisive or advantageous move, resource, action, etc
  3. informal a fine or reliable person
 vb
  1. to play a trump card on (a suit, or a particular card of a suit, that is not trumps)
  2. (transitive) to outdo or surpass
Etymology: 16th Century: variant of triumph
trump /trʌmp/ archaic or literary n
  1. a trumpet or the sound produced by one
  2. the last trump ⇒ the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French trompe, from Old High German trumpa trumpet; compare trombone
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