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carte

1 American  
[kahrt, kart] / kɑrt, kart /

noun

cartes plural
  1. (italics) menu; bill of fare.

  2. a playing card.

  3. Archaic. a map or chart.


Carte 2 American  
[kahrt] / kɑrt /

noun

  1. Richard d'Oyly D'Oyly Carte, Richard.


Carte 1 British  
/ kɑːt /

noun

  1. See D'Oyly Carte

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

carte 2 British  
/ kɑːt /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of quarte

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of carte

before 1150; Middle English, Old English: writing paper, document, letter < Latin charta < Greek chártēs sheet of papyrus

Example Sentences

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Magnum is now the world's largest ice cream maker, with its brands include Cornetto, Wall's and Carte D'Or.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

“The producer’s idea was to have a tongue-in-cheek kind of approach to it,” said Macfarlane Moleli, a journalist with the TV show Carte Blanche.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

But before we get there, Williams takes us back to 1844, when D’Oyly Carte was born to upwardly mobile parents in London’s Soho.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

There’s free admission for the weekly Tuesday jam session – which runs past midnight – and Wednesday’s Carte Blanche sets, which allow a different artist each month to present combinations of invited players.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2020

That was not the sort of "Carte" I wanted.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.

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