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ca·si·no

(kə-sē′nō)

n. pl. ca·si·nos

1. A public room or building for gambling and other entertainment.

2. also cas·si·no A card game for two to four players in which cards on the table are matched by cards in the hand.

3. A summer or country house in Italy.

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

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casino

(kəˈsiːnəʊ)

n, pl -nos

1. (Gambling, except Cards) a public building or room in which gaming takes place, esp roulette and card games such as baccarat and chemin de fer

2. (Card Games) a variant spelling of cassino

[C18: from Italian, diminutive of casa house, from Latin]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ca•si•no

(kəˈsi noʊ)

n., pl. -nos.

1. a building or large room used for meetings, dancing, or esp. for professional gambling.

2. (in Italy) a small country house or lodge.

3. Also, cassino. a card game in which cards that are face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand.

[1780–90; < Italian, =cas(a) house (< Latin) + -ino -ine³]

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Noun	1.	casino - a public building for gambling and entertainment gambling casino gambling den, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house - a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
	2.	casino - a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand cassino card game, cards - a game played with playing cards royal casino - a form of casino in which face cards have extra point values spade casino - a form of casino in which spades have the value of one point

Translations

كَازِينُوكازينو: مَلْهى، نادٍ للقِمار

kasino

kasino

kockarnica

kaszinójátékkaszinó

spilavíti

casin casinò

カジノ

카지노

kazinološimo namai

kazino

kasíno

kasino

บ่อนการพนัน

kumarhanekasino

sòng bạc

赌场

casino

[kəˈsiːnəʊ] N → casino m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

casino

[kəˈsiːnəʊ kəˈsiːnəʊ] n → casino m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

casino

n → (Spiel)kasino nt, → Spielbank f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

casino

[kəˈsiːnəʊ] n → casinò m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

casino

(kəˈsiːnəu) – plural caˈsinos – noun

a building with gambling tables etc.

casino

→ كَازِينُو kasino kasino Kasino καζίνο casino kasino casino kockarnica casinò カジノ 카지노 casino kasino kasyno casino, cassino казино kasino บ่อนการพนัน kumarhane sòng bạc 赌场

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As they approached the casino restlessness crept into Mr Warden's manner.

They left Mr Warden, who shot in at the casino door like a homing rabbit, and walked on in silence, which lasted till Ruth, suddenly becoming aware that her companion's eyes were fixed on her face, turned her head, to meet a gaze of complete, not to say loving, admiration.

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They reined up with a plunge at the Casino entrance.

His fare came forth with the Casino dreamy smile still on her plain face.

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In pompous language, however, which jumbled one sentence into another, and at length grew disconnected, he gave me to understand that I was to lead the children altogether away from the Casino, and out into the park.

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We can give 'em cards and spades an' little casino an' win out on big casino and the aces.

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The Golden Fortune, therefore, backed by towering woodlands, looked out to sea at one side, across to the breakwater headland on another, and on its land side commanded a complete view of the gay little haven, with its white houses built terrace on terrace upon its wooded slopes, connected by flights of zigzag steps, by which the apparently inaccessible shelves and platforms circulated their gay life down to the gay heart of the place,--the circular boulevard, exquisitely leafy and cool, where one found the great casino and the open-air theatre, the exquisite orchestra, into which only the mellowest brass and the subtlest strings were admitted, and the Cafe du Ciel, charmingly situated among the trees, where the boulevard became a bridge, for a moment, at the mouth of the river Sly.

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So Louis and I rendezvoused in a livery stable, and with coats buttoned and chattering teeth played euchre and casino until the time of our exile was over.

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Lady Middleton proposed a rubber of Casino to the others.

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The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a casino and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon.

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They came to the shore of an inlet which is still called Trestraou, but which now, I believe, harbors a casino or something of the sort.

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The times are such that one scarcely dares to allude to that kind of company which thousands of our young men in Vanity Fair are frequenting every day, which nightly fills casinos and dancing-rooms, which is known to exist as well as the Ring in Hyde Park or the Congregation at St.