Cardhouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cardhouse is a noun meaning (countable) A business establishment that hosts card-playing, especially one where patrons play poker.
Meaning
(countable) A business establishment that hosts card-playing, especially one where patrons play poker.
More Meanings
- (geology, uncountable, chiefly attributive) A structure of plate-like mineral deposits that rest on each other's edges.
- (countable) Synonym of house of cards (any sense).
Example Sentences
He spends six nights a week at the cardhouse.
The microstructures do not appear to conform entirely to either cardhouse or honeycomb structures.
The photographer glanced up at them over a four-storeyed cardhouse, which he had built out of crispbread.
On the other hand (and perhaps incompatibly) he was thought to be dangerously addicted to speculation: 'an inveterate theorist, an intellectual cardhouse builder'.
Word Forms
- cardhouses
- card house
- card-house
Synonyms for cardhouse
Depending on context, synonyms include cardcastle.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cardcastle, card-house, card-room, cardroom, house, counting house.
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