euchre
A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24…A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
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Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
Examples
6 sentencesDo you know how to play euchre?
Euchre is played by two pairs.
Euchre is kind of like spades or hearts.
Euchre is played by two two-person teams.
In the smoking room, there were always parties of gentlemen playing euchre, draughts and dominoes.
Origin
Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itselfPossibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.
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Forms
plural: euchresSynonyms
1 synonyms- a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand:five hundred
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.