ace of clubs
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4.7
- noun
- /eɪs əv klʌbz/
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- She shuffled the cards and drew the ace of clubs from the deck.
Examples
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In his hand, he proudly displayed the ace of clubs as his best card.
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So look, take the ace of clubs, all right?
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The magician holds the ace of clubs.
Fiction book (1994) -
- Ace of clubs.
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The player revealed the ace of clubs and won the hand.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the ace in the suit of clubs' is directly derivable from combining 'ace' (a single marked card) with the genitive/partitive construction 'of' plus 'club(s)' (the clubs suit). This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase and follows common cross-linguistic card-suit naming patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand it.
Etymology
Ace of clubs comes from the deck of playing cards. The word ace means 'one' or the 'top card', and clubs is the suit with a small clover-shaped mark, so the name simply tells you it is the ace in the clubs suit.