Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A public room or building for gambling and other entertainment.
- n. A card game for two to four players in which cards on the table are matched by cards in the hand.
- n. A summer or country house in Italy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small country-house; a lodge; a summer-house or retreat.
- n. A club-house or public room used for social meetings, gaming, dancing, music, etc.; a public dancing-saloon.
- n. A game of cards, in which the players, two or more in number, strive to obtain as many cards as possible, especially certain cards of a counting value, as the ten of diamonds and two of spades. Tricks are taken by pairing, that is, by matching a card on the table with one in the hand; combining, or grouping together from the board, cards the number of pips on which equals the number on that played from the hand; and building, or combining cards on the board with one in the hand, the trick to be taken at the player's next turn. In this sense also spelled
cassino .
Wiktionary
- n. A public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling.
- n. A card game for two to four players. (Also spelled cassino.)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small country house.
- n. A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, etc., sometimes having gambling tables or devices.
- n. A game at cards. See Cassino.
- n. a business establishment for which the primary business is gambling, having various types of gambling tables, such as blackjack or roulette, and usually also slot machines, and sometimes other forms of gambling, such as poker; also, the main room of such an establishment where the gambling is conducted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand
- n. a public building for gambling and entertainment
Etymologies
- From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa ("house"), from Latin casa ("cottage, hut"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian, diminutive of casa, house, from Latin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘casino’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
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BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Spam Names
Interesting words that came to me in spam emails in the "From" field. Read in pairs by order added, add the initial of your choice, and you'll get a list of "names."
menominee, burbled, abrasives, barrister, unfortunates, strolls, appareled, uncles, removal, elusive, significance, described and 180 more...
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C
cashmere, cascade, cedar, coral, cherry blossom, candlelight, cream, cloak, casanova, cinnamon, cherub, corset and 39 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 156
accompany, process, high gear, trip, veritable, float, port, motorboat, hydroplane, on board, exhilarating, caress and 48 more...
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favorites
magnanimous, aujourd'hui, lilac, sobriquet, lunch, soliloquy, rhinoceros, snafu, rather, snack, crinoline, millinery and 58 more...
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kangaroo words
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Slots's Words
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Craps's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for casino.

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