POKER HAND

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The 5 cards held in a game of poker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("poker hand" is a kind of...):

deal; hand (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poker hand"):

royal flush (a poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 all in the same suit)

straight flush (a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit)

full house (a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair)

flush (a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit)

straight (a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit))

pair (a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value)