cards vs fantan

fantan vs cards

cards and fantan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cards	Yes	No	No	No
fantan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fantan is a hyponym of cards; that is, fantan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cards:

cards: a game played with playing cards
fantan: a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

Other hyponyms of cards 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, parliament, sevens, faro, Go Fish, monte, three-card monte, boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops, nap, Napoleon, old maid, 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.

cards (noun)	fantan (noun)
a game played with playing cards	a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)
	a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

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