Synonyms for spade
spade

Princeton's WordNet

1. spadenoun

   a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it

   "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps"

2. spadenoun

   a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

3. spadeverb

   dig (up) with a spade

   "I spade compost into the flower beds"

Matched Categories

1. • Dig
   • Hand Shovel
   • Playing Card

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1. spadenoun

   Synonyms:
   spud (narrow, with long handle)

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1. List of paraphrases for "spade":

   cat, shovel, chat, spades, bob, dustpan

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How to use spade in a sentence?

1. Surrogacy Lawyers:

   I think we need to call a spade a spade.

2. Frances Beatrix Spade:

   House of Cards, is Spade’s niece. In the same 1999 interview with the Boston Globe, Spade, who had five siblings, told the newspaper her father owned a construction company and her mother was a housewife. To say the least, Spade, who recalled times of rummaging through her mother’s jewelry drawer and wearing overalls around the house, never expected to one day become a fashion expert. When I was a kid, I didn't even know Chanel. I would have called it Channel.

3. Menander:

   I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

4. Craig Johnson:

   We believe that Michael Kors and Kate Spade will still be showing solid growth, but not the robust, double-digit we've seen over the last couple of years.

5. Steve Scheffler:

   Somebody needs to call a spade a spade and call it for what it is, and if they're offended, so be it, they need to address the religious liberty issue when they come to Iowa.