Casino
[kə'siːnəʊ] or [kə'sino]
Definition
(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.
Typed by Cyril--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small country house.
(n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.
(n.) A game at cards. See Cassino.
Typist: Ursula
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [It.] [1]. Cottage, small house.[2]. Club-house.
Typed by Gwendolyn
Definition
n. a room for public dancing: a card-game.
Typed by Aileen
Examples
- I understand he makes a perfect spectacle of himself at the Casino, and that sort of places, by going on about me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why, he told us which way to go to find the Grand Casino. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Lady Middleton proposed a rubber of Casino to the others. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- All these tricks and turns of the show were upon him with a spring as he descended the Casino steps and paused on the pavement at its doors. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Lily carried the impression of Mrs. Fisher's leave-taking away with her from the Casino doors. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We sat down, finally, at a late hour, in the great Casino, and called for unstinted champagne. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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