Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A card game for two to six players, related to rummy and requiring two or three decks of cards.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable, games, card games A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
- n. countable, card games A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank
Etymologies
- From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay. (Wiktionary)
- Spanish, from canasto, basket, from Latin canistrum; see canister. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I think the term is also used in canasta, which is also not in the same league as bridge.”
“Ten percent of the "canasta" is comprised of imported goods.”
“I think the term is also used in canasta, which is also not in the same league as bridge.byomtovQuote”
“But when the helicopter returned yesterday and started making its rounds back and forth and back and forth with his little "canasta" for water I figured in some form or fashion it had gotten out of hand and the gobierno had intervened.”
“When I was younger I was a habitual finger tapper when I was concentrating, making me an infuriating person to play canasta with.”
“No wonder the other players feel queasy as they sit in the background pretending to play canasta and desperately hoping the ambassador will send in some chocolate before JT begins fluttering his eyelashes and giggling coquettishly about his ice cubes melting.”
The Guardian: Footballers' Spring launched by revolting players | Harry Pearson
“I've seen more young people than that at Larry King's canasta parties.”
“And if by chance they have the queso de canasta, a superb white cheese in a woven basket, go for it! donemry”
“We enjoyed the canasta rellena - taco salad in a basket (45 pesos).”
John Keeling's 2009 Restaurant Guide (Chapala, Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta)
“After breakfast I'd go back to Grandma's house and she'd be making pierogis for the ladies who were coming to play canasta in the afternoon.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Feniger: Keeping Holiday Traditions Alive, From Chicken Liver to Pierogis
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canasta’.
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Fads
With bows of great respect to Connie Willis, author of "Bellwether" and other wonderful books.
Hula-Hoop, bungee-jumping, hair-bobbing, pogs, jitterbug, jogging, mesmerism, Ouija board, miniature golf, The Old Curiosity..., Harry Potter, line dancing and 271 more...
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Random Words! Add Your Own! :D
Randomness time! Add your own words. ❤
Love, bucket, brigade, actuary, canal, canasta, why is the door open, coconut, stochastic, haphazard, accidental, chance and 38 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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The Decemberists
The Decemberists tend to use a lot of interesting words in their songs.
parapet, wastrel, mescaline, indolent, balustrade, vagabond, sprightly, grapple, gunwale, odalisque, timberline, moribund and 116 more...
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literary lyrics.
my favorite words from my favorite songs. or: why i love colin meloy & joanna newsom.
sinews, loll, lino, geisha, garland, wanton, ventricles, rend, pyrenees, odalisque, garbled, castanets and 29 more...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Che Guevara
vicissitude, pampas, precursor, solemnity, trajectory, Quixotic, roguish, solder, efficacy, rapport, acrid, circumscribe and 88 more...
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ooh shiny
words I like with little or no rationalization
weir, siphon, lossy, mayhem, eruct, helix, candela, murther, fend, axial, feverfew, ventral and 61 more...
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Spanish Spelling Bee List
i am still copying down lists but i am in the 5th grade and got fourth in the spelling bee out of 26 people, the word i missed was candelabra, well next year i will win because now i know the words
burrito, gazpacho, alligator, chinchilla, pueblo, quesadilla, flamenco, cabana, filibuster, cilantro, mesa, cafeteria and 60 more...
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Auditorily Pleasing Words
Words I like the sound of.
coinkidink, pugnacious, unilaterally, bombastic, canasta, poignant, absolution, flammivomous, batrachomyomachy, tittuppy, mimsy
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It Hasta Be..."
Words containing "asta".
pastas, parastatal, rastafarianism, castanets, castaways, astasia, mastaba, devastatingly, dastardliness, metastability, astaticism, tastable and 6 more...
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MyVocab
Words that have come in the previous papers
seriatim, hermitage, hermit, clemency, ingenuity, labyrinth, esoteric, chagrin, mortification, genuflect, stentorian, euphonious and 58 more...
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Her Majesty
tain, palanquin, infanta, bagman, canasta, arabesque, parapet, maidenhead, bosun, gunwale, quay, ply and 27 more...
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Decemberist Lyrics
Various words that have appeared in the lyrics of songs by the Decemberists.
bombazine, odalisque, pachyderm, palanquin, gunwale, vagabond, balustrade, courtesan, samovar, parallax, paragon, fecund and 9 more...
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meld
A contemplation of the indo european root meaning of meldh-.
All lists are melds.lightening, enlightening, mix, blend, weld, meld, merge, emerge, coalesce, canasta, fuse, commingle and 27 more...
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