Meaning

Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
2. A session of playing this card game.
3. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!
4. Onomatopoeia for slicing.
5. (transitive, rare) To hush or shush; to still.
6. (intransitive, rare) To become silent.
7. (rare) Silent, hushed.

Example Sentences

… for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger.

Well! she laid down her little golden head without fear; and whist! down came the axe, and it was off. So the mother wiped the axe and laughed.

o was the Titaness put downe and whist

The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue

Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands: / Courtsied when you have and kiss'd / The wild waves whist, / Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.[…]

Word Forms

• whists
• whisting
• whisted
• more whist
• most whist

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When Should You Use Whist?

Use whist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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