Usually means: Traditional card game, trick-taking.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word whist:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. whist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whist: Merriam-Webster
  3. whist, whist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whist, whist: Wordnik
  8. whist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whist: Wiktionary
  10. whist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whist: Dictionary.com
  14. whist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Whist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whist: Rhymezone
  19. Whist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Whist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. whist: FreeDictionary.org
  23. whist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. whist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whist: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WHIST: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whist: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. Whist: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whist, Whist, Whist, Whist: Card Games

(Note: See whisting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
noun:  A session of playing this card game.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To hush or shush; to still.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To become silent.
adjective:  (rare) Silent, hushed.

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