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suit

nounmasculine/ˈnajpɨ/medium

nai·pe

Definition

One of the four categories (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades) into which playing cards are divided.
Hearts is one of the four suits in a deck of cards.
You must follow suit if you can.
Common collocations
club suitdiamond suitheart suitspade suit
Idiomatic expressions
  • follow suit (to do the same as someone else)

Etymology

Do árabe 'na'ib' (representante, tenente), através do espanhol 'naipes' (cartas de jogar).

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