deck of cards
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1.4
- noun
- /dɛk əv kɑrdz/
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baraja
- She shuffled the deck of cards before dealing them to the players.
A brand new untouched deck of cards.
- A brand new untouched deck of cards.
- When I was interviewing Chris Van Zandt, we took a break and I have one of the original decks of cards, you know, in that cabinet.
- I want to go home tonight and whip out my deck of cards and do this.
- You're doing like, all kinds of like, fold that like a bunch of deck of cards like he does in the show.
- And he had told me he goes, you know, we got damn near that entire deck of cards every night.
- I mean, before we get into that, it sounds like you guys have just killed an entire deck of cards.
Examples
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Now all we need is a deck of cards.
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Give me a deck of cards, please.
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So I just have a deck of cards that is ordered as you see up there.
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Fan them out like a deck of cards.
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Should I get a deck of cards?
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Just last week, I brought her a deck of cards to play with.
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I think I packed a deck of cards, actually.
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Let's see, I think I have a deck of cards somewhere.
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He buys a deck of cards at the hotel gift shop.
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So I hope somebody brought a deck of cards for the pinochle tournament we are having - because we are locked in.
Synonyms
84
1.0
A set of 52 cards used for playing games
1
1.6
A set of 52 cards used for playing games
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: a 'deck' as a pack and 'cards' as playing cards, with 'of' as a linking function word. This construction is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun + of + noun composition, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun deck of cards comes from the image of a neat pile: a deck is a tidy pack and the cards are the thin pieces kept together. So, a deck of cards means the full 'set' of playing cards you use in a game.