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drawing card

draw·ing card
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [draw-ing kahrd]
    • /ˈdrɔ ɪŋ kɑrd/
    • /ˈdrɔːɪŋ kɑːd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [draw-ing kahrd]
    • /ˈdrɔ ɪŋ kɑrd/

Definitions of drawing card words

  • noun drawing card a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons. 1
  • noun drawing card sth that attracts patrons 1
  • noun drawing card a performer, act, etc, certain to attract a large audience 0
  • noun drawing card an entertainer, speaker, show, etc. that normally can be expected to draw a large audience 0
  • noun drawing card (Idiomatic) something that grabs attention. 0

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Origin of drawing card

First appearance:

before 1885
One of the 21% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1885-90

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Drawing card

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

drawing card popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 27% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

drawing card usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for drawing card

noun drawing card

  • blind — Someone who is blind is unable to see because their eyes are damaged.
  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
  • stoolie — a pigeon used as a decoy.
  • imitation — a result or product of imitating.

Antonyms for drawing card

noun drawing card

  • reality — the state or quality of being real.
  • frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.
  • honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
  • truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
  • repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.

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