casino
Saykuh-SEE-nohUS/kæˈsinoʊ/UK/kəˈsiːnəʊ/AUS/kəˈsiːnəʉ/
Pluralcasinos, casinoes, casini
- 1A place where people go to gamble and play games to win or lose money.
Like an amusement park, but you play games to win or lose money.
We spent the evening at the casino downtown.
The new casino has hundreds of slot machines and card tables.
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- 2A card game for two to four players, where you try to capture cards laid on the table.
We played casino until midnight at the kitchen table.
My grandmother taught me casino when I was young.
- 3One of a few special cards in casino, a card game for two to four people.
Before we started playing, Grandpa showed me which cards were the casinos.
I kept my casino hidden until the very last turn.
Less common meaning
- 4A small house, often in Italy, where people go to rest and have fun.
They spent the warm months at their small casino above the lake.
Quirini [was] knowing in the belles Lettres, & highly skilled in making his Casino comfortable to all the Wits & Blues as we now call them in London.
1786, Hester Thrale Piozzi, ThralianaHere, Casino means a small house kept for pleasure and relaxing.Note
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Origin
From Italian casino, meaning a little house. It comes from Latin casa, a cottage or hut.