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cassino

cassino

1 9.9
A card game where players match cards in hand with cards on the table to take them and score
  • noun
  • /kæˈsiːnoʊ/
translation icon : cassino
  • She enjoyed playing cassino with her friends every Friday night.

Examples

  • During our game of cassino, I captured three cards with the same rank.

  • In cassino, matching cards is essential to score points and win the game.

  • Or cassino date, we open.

  • Cassino.

  • In other families, similar stories must have been told about the Normandy beaches, Cassino, and night flights over Ploesti.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Bear in mind, there are only three right now (Koop's Come to Me, Cassino's American Low, and Death Cab for Cutie's I Will Follow You Into the Dark today) out of a total of 24 songs on the playlist currently.

    Blog text (11)

Synonyms

casino
vscassino
52 4.9

A card game where players take face up cards from the table using cards from their hand

has identical meaning but uses a different spelling

Surface Forms

cassino singular
cassinos plural

Etymology

Cassino comes from the Italian word casa ('house') plus the small ending -ino, and it is like the English word casino, which once meant a little place to meet. So, the card game was named after the small houses or meeting places where people gathered to play.