spades

See also: Spades and spädes

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spādz, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /speɪdz/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdz

Noun

spades

1. plural of spade

Noun

spades pl (plural only)

1. (card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
2. (card games) 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)

  Hijazi Arabic: سبيت m (sibīt)

• Bengali: ইস্কাবন (bn) (iskabon)
• 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 (mk) m (list), пик m (pik)
• Malay: sekopong, sped
• 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:

  Modern Turkish: maça (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: ماچه (maça), كورك (kürek)

• Turkmen: garahal
• Ukrainian: вино́ (uk) n (vynó), пі́ка f (píka)
• Vietnamese: pích (vi)

card game

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

See also

• ♠, ♤

Verb

spades

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spade

Anagrams

• passed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

spades

1. plural of spade

Swedish

Noun

spades

1. indefinite genitive singular of spade