This article is about the playing card. For alternate uses of the word see Ace (disambiguation). For abbreviations with the same spelling, see ACE.

Ace cards of all four suits

The word "ace" comes from the Old French word 'as' (from Latin 'as') meaning 'a unit', from the name of a small Roman coin. It originally meant the side of a die with only one mark, before it was a term for a playing card. Since this was the lowest roll of the die, it traditionally meant 'bad luck' in Middle English, but as the ace is often the highest playing card, its meaning has changed to mean 'high-quality, excellence'. Look up ace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ace cards of all four suits The word ace comes from the Old French word as (from Latin as) meaning a unit, from the name of a small Roman coin. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1067 pixel, file size: 126 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A hand holding the four Aces in a standard deck of cards. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1067 pixel, file size: 126 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A hand holding the four Aces in a standard deck of cards. ... Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300 A.D. It was known at the time as the langue doïl to distinguish it from the langue... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...

An ace is a playing card. In the standard deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the Ace of Spades, which also often bears the name or emblem of the deck's printer. In most card games, aces have the highest value of all cards in a suit; in some, they have the lowest value, commonly representing a one. Many games, such as poker and blackjack, allow the player to choose whether the ace is used as a high or low card. When aces are high, spades are occasionally deemed to be trump cards, meaning that if it came down to a tie, the ace of spades would naturally win. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The four French playing card suits used primarily in the English-speaking world: spades(♠), hearts(), diamonds() and clubs(♣). In playing cards, a suit is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. ... An Ace of Spades playing card. ... A game of Texas holdem, currently the most popular form of poker, in progress. ... Blackjack is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. ... In card games, trumps frequently figure in trick-taking games such as bridge, euchre, and spades. ...

The tradition of a "high" ace comes from the French Revolution where the lowest number card (the one) was placed above the King to represent the victory of the common man over the monarchy. In French decks, the ace commonly has the number one in the corners instead of the letter "A". The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on...

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