Meaning of Trump | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Jew's harp.
   dated
2. A surname from German.
   countable, uncountable
3. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
4. A trumpet.
   archaic
5. A fart.
   UK, colloquial
6. Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality, and current president of the United States of America (2017–2021, 2025–present).
   countable, uncountable
7. A playing card of that suit.
8. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
9. A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.
   countable, uncountable
10. Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
    figuratively
11. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
    countable, uncountable
12. An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
    archaic, colloquial
13. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
14. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

Equivalents

Examples

“Diamonds were declared trump(s).”

“And now her Heart with Pleasure jumps, She scarce remembers what is Trumps.”

“He played an even higher trump.”

“VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe, And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was, I would lay a ſurer trumpe, Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.”

“[W]e permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.”

“All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.”

“Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.”

“Alfred is a trump, I think you say.”

“There be many one that breaketh this carde,[…]and playeth there with oftentimes at the blinde trompe, wherby they be no winners but great losers”

“Trionfo,[…]also a trump at cards, or the play called trump or ruff.”

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible”

“Sound, sound the trump of fame,”

“The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.”

“During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.”

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