Trump Definition
To supersede.
A surname, a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.
- to devise or make up (a charge against someone, an excuse, etc.) fraudulently
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Origin of Trump
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From Middle English trompe "trumpet" from Old French trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba "trumpet". Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", Middle Dutch tromme "drum", Middle Low German trumme "drum". More at trumpet, drum.
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Middle English trompe from Old French trumpet
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s)).
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Alteration of triumph
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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