Face Card (Noun)
Meaning
One of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The king was a face card, along with the queen and jack in the suit of hearts.
- Face cards were not the highest-scoring cards in the game, but they still carried significant value.
- A player must draw two face cards from the deck in order to fulfill the hand's requirement.
- Among the standard fifty-two card deck, twelve of them were face cards that could represent any of the suits.
- Some face cards depicted fantastical or fictional characters rather than actual people from history or mythology.