playing card vs face card

playing card and face card both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
playing card	Yes	No	No	No
face card	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, face card is a hyponym of playing card; that is, face card is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than playing card:

playing card: one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games
face card: one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

Other hyponyms of playing card include crib, ace, club, deuce, two, diamond, draw, court card, picture card, gaming card, heart, hole card, joker, singleton, spade, spot, stopper, suit, three, trey, trump, trump card, wild card.

playing card (noun)	face card (noun)
one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games	one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

playing card vs face card

playing card and face card both are nouns.

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