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carte¹

  • /kɑː(ɹ)t/

Sounds like cart · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart.

noun cartes

  1. A bill of fare; a menu.
  2. dated A visiting card. "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown.
  3. historical A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.
  4. Scotland, dated A playing card. We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.

carte²

  • /kɑː(ɹ)t/

Sounds like cart · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t

noun cartes

  1. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of quarte

Carte³

proper noun Cartes

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: menu, card, white, visite, laminate, chip, paper, transparent, pass, mapping, map, postcard, chart, blank, letter, cardholder

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"carte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/carte. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

carte. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/carte

Chicago

"carte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/carte.

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@misc{carte_2026,
  title = {carte},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carte},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}