Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A public room or building for gambling and other entertainment.
  • noun A card game for two to four players in which cards on the table are matched by cards in the hand.
  • noun A summer or country house in Italy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small country-house; a lodge; a summer-house or retreat.
  • noun A club-house or public room used for social meetings, gaming, dancing, music, etc.; a public dancing-saloon.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small country house.
  • noun A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, etc., sometimes having gambling tables or devices.
  • noun A game at cards. See Cassino.
  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling.
  • noun A card game for two to four players. (Also spelled cassino.)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand
  • noun a public building for gambling and entertainment

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian country club, hunting lodge, casino, from diminutive of casa, house, from Latin, cottage, hut, humble dwelling.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa ("house"), from Latin casa ("cottage, hut").

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Examples

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  • And some skill 19th century, CASINO MOVIE QUOTES the term casino came have.

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  • Buffett the straight-talking conscience of capitalism is, at bottom, a casino operator, and his casino is the whole world.

    American Everyman 2004

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    American Everyman 2004

  • Although the word casino is not specifically mentioned, I'm sure many of the good people in Southern California know what the attraction is.

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  • Overall, all of the emotional responses you may get from watching a player at a brick and mortar casino is lost when you play online.

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  • Researching carefully that whether the casino is legit and offers legal game play alongside the payment alternatives can be a great way of making sure that you get the return for your investment easily and more aptly.

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  • *** Hotels Accor, a French hotel group, said it was withdrawing its offer to sell its 49% stake in casino and luxury hotel operator Lucien Barri è re after the initial public offering didn't attract enough interest from investors.

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  • MGM Resorts 'Bill McBeath, who oversees Aria, the main casino hotel at City Center, responded that "we need to keep operating our venues [because] our high-end international customers expect superior service."

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  • The casino is being built underground so it won't take away from the ambiance and scenery of the 6,500-acre resort, which has entertained kings and presidents and once housed a secret bomb shelter intended for Congress.

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