Whist Definition

wĭst, hwĭst
noun
A card game similar to bridge but without the use of bidding to establish the trump suit: bridge developed from whist.
Webster's New World
A card game ancestral to bridge, played with a full deck by two teams of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over six won by each team.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • short whist
  • long whist
interjection
Hush.
Webster's New World

Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence! Quiet! Hush! Shhh!

Wiktionary
adjective

Silent.

Wiktionary
verb

To hush or silence; to still.

Wiktionary

(intransitive) To become silent.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Whist

Noun

Singular:
whist
Plural:
whists

Origin of Whist

  • Alteration (perhaps influenced by the exclamation whist silence!) of obsolete and dialectal whisk perhaps from whisk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English whist (“silent").

    From Wiktionary

Whist Sentence Examples

  • The cards rank as at whist, and five are dealt to each player.

  • His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist.

  • In it he wrote on a great variety of subjects, including chess and whist.

  • Sam is a quality player who will add steel to our batting whist being very useful with his leg spin bowling.

  • We will collect and store any personal data that you may volunteer whist using our services (e.g. registration or placing an order ).

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Words Starting With

WWHWHI

Words Ending With

TSTIST

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