picture cards

Jacks, queens, kings

Picture cards are the face cards in a standard deck—jacks, queens, and kings—distinguished from numbered cards by depicting human figures rather than pips.

The term is slightly more common in British English than American: She drew three picture cards in a row.

Related

king · queen · royal flush · poker hand · image · portrait · storyboard · poker · illustration · Hearts · Bridge · representation · likeness · photograph · Iconography · snap · Whist · Pinochle

Categories
Opposites
card face design

picture cardsnumbered cards

Cards showing quantity values

number cards

card rank hierarchy

picture cardsdeuces

Playing card twos

twos · threes · fours

card identity representation

picture cardsblank cards

Cardstock without printing

Family

picture, card, pictures, pictured, picturing, pictorial, pictorially, cards, carded

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G