acenoun [ C ]
uk/eɪs/us/eɪs/ace noun [ C ] (PLAYING CARD)
one of the four playing cards with a single mark or spot. The ace has the highest or lowest value in many card games:
the ace of hearts/clubs/spades/diamonds
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- solitaire
- strip poker
- suit
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ace noun [ C ] (SKILLED PERSON)
informal a person who is very skilled at something:
a tennis/flying ace
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Experts and specialists
- a mine of information idiom
- academician
- authority
- boffin
- buff
- child prodigy
- doyen
- high priest
- hotshot
- know sth inside out idiom
- literati
- maven
- resident
- skilled
- superuser
- supremo
- techie
- technician
- technocracy
- virtuoso
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ace noun [ C ] (TENNIS)
in tennis, a serve (= a hit of the ball that starts play) that is so strong and fast that the other player cannot return the ball:
That's the third ace Lawson has served this match.
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Tennis & racket sports
- birdie
- break
- break point
- deuce
- double
- fault
- groundstroke
- half-volley
- knock
- lawn tennis
- match point
- passing shot
- racket
- racquetball
- rally
- seed
- single
- smash
- sweet spot
- tennis shoe
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Idiom(s)
an ace up your sleeve
come within an ace of sth
have/hold all the aces
aceverb [ T ]
uk/eɪs/us/eɪs/US informalto do very well in an exam:
I was up all night studying, but it was worth it - I aced my chemistry final.
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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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aceadjective
uk/eɪs/us/eɪs/old-fashioned slangexcellent:
He's an ace basketball player.
That's an ace bike you've got there.
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Informal words for good
- A-OK
- amazeballs
- apple pie
- awesomesauce
- badass
- champion
- jim-dandy
- juicy
- killer
- knock
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic
- rule
- serious
- sight
- smashing
- some
- splendiferous
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous
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