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house of cards
Overview of noun house-of-cards
The noun house of cards has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. house of cards, bubble -- (a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble")
2. house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle -- (an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun house-of-cards
2 senses of house of cards
Sense 1
house of cards, bubble
=> scheme, strategy
=> plan of action
=> plan, program, programme
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> structure, construction
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun house-of-cards
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun house-of-cards
2 senses of house of cards
Sense 1
house of cards, bubble
=> scheme, strategy
Sense 2
house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> structure, construction
Antonyms of noun house-of-cards
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Familiarity of noun house-of-cards
house of cards used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun house-of-cards
2 senses of house of cards
Sense 1
house of cards, bubble
> scheme, strategy
=> contrivance, stratagem, dodge
=> counterterrorism
=> game plan
=> game plan
=> house of cards, bubble
=> playbook
=> plot, secret plan, game
=> pyramid scheme
=> waiting game
=> wheeze
=> incentive program, incentive scheme
Sense 2
house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
> structure, construction
=> airdock, hangar, repair shed
=> altar
=> arcade, colonnade
=> arch
=> area
=> balcony
=> balcony
=> bascule
=> boarding
=> body
=> bridge, span
=> building, edifice
=> building complex, complex
=> catchment
=> coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix
=> colonnade
=> column, pillar
=> corner, quoin
=> cross
=> deathtrap
=> defensive structure, defense, defence
=> door
=> entablature
=> erection
=> establishment
=> floor, level, storey, story
=> fountain
=> house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> housing, lodging, living accommodations
=> hull
=> jungle gym
=> lamination
=> landing, landing place
=> lookout, observation tower, lookout station, observatory
=> masonry
=> memorial, monument
=> mound, hill
=> obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
=> partition, divider
=> platform, weapons platform
=> porch
=> post and lintel
=> prefab
=> projection
=> public works
=> set-back, setoff, offset
=> shelter
=> shoebox
=> signboard, sign
=> stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
=> superstructure
=> supporting structure
=> tower
=> transept
=> trestlework
=> vaulting
=> ways, shipway, slipway
=> wellhead
=> wind tunnel
=> honeycomb
=> balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
Meronyms of noun house-of-cards
2 senses of house of cards
Sense 1
house of cards, bubble
=> scheme, strategy
=> plan of action
HAS PART: goal, end
Sense 2
house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> structure, construction
HAS PART: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
HAS PART: plate
HAS PART: structural member
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun house-of-cards
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