card game vs old maid

old maid vs card game

card game and old maid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
card game	Yes	No	No	No
old maid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, old maid is a hyponym of card game; that is, old maid is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than card game:

card game: a game played with playing cards
old maid: a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')

Other hyponyms of card game include all fours, high-low-jack, baccarat, chemin de fer, beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-Jack-naked, blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-un, bridge, casino, cassino, crib, cribbage, ecarte, euchre, five hundred, fantan, parliament, sevens, faro, Go Fish, monte, three-card monte, boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops, nap, Napoleon, bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle, piquet, pisha paysha, poker, poker game, rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante, rum, rummy, patience, solitaire, long whist, short whist, whist, four-card monte.

card game (noun)	old maid (noun)
a game played with playing cards	a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
	an elderly unmarried woman
	the loser in a game of old maid
	commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
	any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

Difference between card game and old maid

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