ace – English noun declension

English noun forms of ace

Noun: ace
Singularace
Pluralaces

Sample Sentences

  • You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. [1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter:]
  • Ace in the corner. [1961, The Hustler:]
  • […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. [1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:]
  • If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve. [1996, Arthur M. Smith, Robert Thomas King, Let's Get Going, page 65:]
  • He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty. [c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue:]
  • I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it; [1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 45:]
  • "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year. [2012, Arv Olson, Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page 253:]
  • an ace detective
  • ‘Weston, the ace of theatrical agents.’ [1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4:]
  • Mexican ace Dos Santos smashed home the third five minutes later after good work from Defoe. [2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”), probably borrowed from Etruscan. Doublet of as. See: Latin Nouns 'as'.

Verbs referencing "ace"

Russian Nouns эйс.