spade
/speɪ̯d/noun, verb1 syllable
Spade means: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it.
What does spade mean?3
noun
1
a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it“she led a low spade”
2
a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
verb
1
dig (up) with a spade“I spade compost into the flower beds”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with spade?58
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Spade in a sentence
- I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.Scott
- The suits in a standard deck of cards are clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades.bobking12
- A card deck consists of four suits: diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades.AlanF_US
- He is the type of a person who calls a spade a spade.CK
- Why don't you call a spade a spade?sharptoothed
- Who's allowed to call a spade a spade?CM
- Ziri has always called a spade a spade.Amastan
- He's the sort of person who calls a spade a spade.sundown
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of spade
as a noun
- plural
- spades
as a verb
- past tense
- spaded
- present participle
- spading
- third-person singular
- spades
- past participle
- spaded