Court card
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.
"1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever."
- 2 one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face wordnet
- 3 A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly in the United Kingdom circa 1894–1902. UK, historical
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More examples"1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever."
Etymology
Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.