ace

Meaning of ace

noun
  1. a playing card with a single spot on it, ranked as the highest card in its suit in most card games.
    the ace of diamonds
    life had started dealing him aces again
  2. a person who excels at a particular sport or other activity.
    a motorcycle ace
  3. (in tennis and similar games) a service that an opponent is unable to return and thus wins a point.
    Nadal banged down eight aces in the set
adjective
  1. very good.
    an ace swimmer
    Ace! You've done it!
verb
  1. (in tennis and similar games) serve an ace against (an opponent).
    he can ace opponents with serves of no more than 62 mph
  2. achieve high marks in (a test or exam).
    I aced my grammar test

Middle English (denoting the ‘one’ on dice): via Old French from Latin as ‘unity, a unit’.

Information about ace

Hyphenation of ace

ace

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • ace is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

ace synonyms

Meaning A-one:

crack, fantastic, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops

Meaning one:

one, I, single, unity

Meaning adept:

adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz

Meaning breeze through:

nail

Meaning a person who is very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular area:

expert

Meaning a skilled practitioner of a particular art or activity:

master

Meaning a distinguished conductor or performer of classical music:

maestro

Meaning a person competent or skilled in a particular activity:

professional

Meaning the most respected or prominent person in a particular field:

doyen

Meaning a person or thing that wins something:

winner

Meaning a person who achieves great success when relatively young:

wunderkind

Meaning a forceful or skilful performer of a specified activity:

demon

Meaning a professional, especially in sport:

pro

Meaning a person skilled in the Japanese art of ninjutsu:

ninja

Meaning an exceptionally good person or thing:

crackerjack

Meaning extremely good; outstanding:

excellent

Meaning extremely good or pleasing; splendid:

marvellous

Meaning inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvellous:

wonderful

Meaning extremely beautiful, elaborate, or impressive:

magnificent

Meaning exceptionally good:

outstanding

Meaning of the highest quality or degree:

superlative

Meaning inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable:

formidable

Meaning showing great skill; very accomplished:

masterly

Meaning of very high quality; very good of its kind:

fine

Meaning showing great skill and flair:

consummate

Meaning having or showing skill:

skilful

Meaning (of a person) very skilled in a particular area:

great

Meaning extremely good; excellent:

terrific

Meaning extremely good or impressive; excellent:

tremendous

Meaning very good; excellent:

superb

Meaning relating to a star or stars:

stellar

Meaning very good indeed; very impressive or attractive:

sensational

Meaning very good; wonderful:

fabulous

Meaning fabulous; wonderful:

fab

Meaning intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify:

mean

Meaning extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring awe:

awesome

Meaning wonderful; exciting:

magic

Meaning excellent; wonderful:

wicked, smashing

Meaning excellent; marvellous:

brilliant

Meaning a European flatfish that resembles a turbot:

brill

Meaning tough, uncompromising, or intimidating:

badass

ace antonyms

Meaning a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid rather than a professional basis:

amateur

Meaning of only average quality; not very good:

mediocre

Meaning done in an unskilful or inept way:

amateurish

Translation of ace

Words that rhyme with ace

Ace, Inhibace, bombace, embace, rubace, cace, stomacace, efficace, fricace, arthrocace, carpocace, coxarthrocace, gonarthrocace, pedarthrocace, pneumonocace, spondylarthrocace, spondylocace, stomatocace, Dace, dace, spikedace, thridace, Candace, Kandace, vendace, audace, Greenpeace, Peace, dispeace, headpeace, peace, semipeace, unpeace, Reace, Treace, preace, face, aface, clubface, subface, boldface, extraboldface, hardface, Preface, braeface, contreface, deface, falseface, foreface, mapleface

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