spades

spades

See also: Spades and spädes

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spādz, IPA^(key): /speɪdz/
• Rhymes: -eɪdz

• Audio (US)

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Noun

spades

1. plural of spade

Noun

spades

1. One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
2. A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 57:

     Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ace of spades
• in spades
• jack of spades
• king of spades
• knave of spades
• queen of spades

Related terms

• spade

Translations

spade — see spade

suit of playing cards

Arabic: بَسْتُونِيّ‎ m (bastūniyy) Bengali: ইস্কাবন (bn) (iskabônô) Bulgarian: пи́ка (bg) f (píka), пи́ки (bg) pl (píki) Burmese: ဖူး (my) (hpu:) Catalan: piques (ca) f pl Chinese: Cantonese: 葵扇 (kwai4 sin3) Mandarin: 黑桃 (zh) (hēitáo) Czech: piky pl Danish: spar (da) c Dutch: schoppen (nl) m or f Esperanto: piko Estonian: poti (et) Finnish: pata (fi) French: pique (fr) m Galician: picas f pl German: Pik (de) n, Schippe (de) f Hindi: हुक्म (hi) m (hukma) Hungarian: pikk (hu) Interlingua: spada, picca Italian: picche (it) f pl Japanese: スペード (ja) (supēdo) Khmer: ប៊ិក (km) (bik) Latin: hastae f pl Lithuanian: pikai m pl, vynai m pl Luxembourgish: Schëppen (lb) pl Macedonian: лист m (list), пик m (pik) Maori: hāwara Marathi: इस्पिक (ispik) Mongolian: гил (mn) (gil) Navajo: asbáala Ojibwe: gichi-biig, biig Polish: pik (pl) m Portuguese: espadas (pt) m pl Romanian: pică (ro) f, frunză (ro) f Russian: пи́ки (ru) f pl (píki), пи́ка (ru) f (píka), вини (ru) (vini) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пи̏к m Latin: pȉk (sh) m Slovene: pík (sl) m Spanish: picas (es) f pl Swahili: shupaza, jembe (sw) Swedish: spader (sv) n Tagalog: ispada, espada Tatar: карга (tt) (qarga) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: ماچه‎ (maça), كورك‎ (kürek) Modern Turkish: maça (tr) Turkmen: garahal Ukrainian: вино́ (uk) n (vynó), пі́ка f (píka) Vietnamese: pích

card game

Bengali: ইস্কাবনবাজী (iśkabônbazī) Latin: hastae f pl Polish: piki (pl) pl

See also

• ♠, ♤

Suits in English · suits (see also: cards, playing cards) (layout · text)
hearts	diamonds	spades	clubs

Verb

spades

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spade

Anagrams

• passed

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

spades

1. Plural form of spade

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Swedish

Noun

spades

1. indefinite genitive singular of spade.