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casino

name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kəˈsiːnəʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /kæˈsinoʊ/
  • Canada, General-American: /kəˈsinoʊ/
  • Australian: /kəˈsiːnəʉ/
  • Australian: /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
  • New-Zealand: /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
  • rhymes with -iːnəʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH0 S IY1 N OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A town in the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A public building or room for gambling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • He went to the casino every night till 1:00 am.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A certain Italian card game for two to four players.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cassino

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: card game, cards

Narrower terms: royal casino, spade casino

7

noun

Meaning 7

a public building for gambling and entertainment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gambling casino

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gambling house, gambling den, gambling hell, gaming house

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Arabic: كَازِينُو (kāzīnū) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Arabic: نَادِي الْقِمَار (nādī l-qimār) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Armenian: խաղատուն (xaġatun) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Armenian: կազինո (kazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Azerbaijani: qumarxana — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Azerbaijani: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Belarusian: казіно́ (kazinó) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Bengali: ক্যাসিনো (kêśinō) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Bulgarian: казино́ (kazinó) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Burmese: ကက်စီနို (kakcinui) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Catalan: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 賭場 /赌场 (dou2 coeng4) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese: 繳場 /缴场 (kiáu-tiûn) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese: 繳間 /缴间 (kiáu-keng) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese: 繳岫 /缴岫 (kiáu-siū) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese: 繳窟 /缴窟 (kiáu-khut) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese Mandarin: 賭場 /赌场 (dǔchǎng) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卡西諾 /卡西诺 (kǎxīnuò) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Chinese Mandarin: 賭博場 /赌博场 (dǔbóchǎng) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Czech: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Danish: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Dutch: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Dutch: speelhuis — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Esperanto: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Estonian: kasiino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Finnish: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • French: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Galician: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Georgian: კაზინო (ḳazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Georgian: სამორინე (samorine) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • German: Kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • German: Spielbank — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Greek: καζίνο (kazíno) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Ancient Greek: κυβεῖον (kubeîon) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Gujarati: કસિનો (kasino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Gujarati: જુગારખાનું (jugārkhānũ) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hebrew: קָזִינוֹ (kazíno) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hindi: कैसिनो (kaisino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hindi: कज़ीनो (kazīno) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hindi: जुआखाना (juākhānā) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hindi: जुआख़ाना (juāxānā) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hindi: जुआघर (juāghar) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Hungarian: kaszinó — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Icelandic: spilavíti — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Ido: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Indonesian: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Irish: casaíne — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Italian: casinò — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Japanese: 賭場 (toba) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Japanese: カジノ (kajino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Japanese: 賭博場 (tobakujō) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Kazakh: ойынхана (oiynxana) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Kazakh: құмархана (qūmarxana) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Khmer: រឿណរង្គ (rɨən rŭəng) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Khmer: កាស៊ីណូ (kaasiinou) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Korean: 카지노 (kajino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Korean: 도박장 (dobakjang) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Kyrgyz: казино (kazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Kyrgyz: кумаркана (kumarkana) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Lao: ຄາສິໂນ (khā si nō) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Latin: āleātōrium — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Latvian: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Lithuanian: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Luxembourgish: Casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Macedonian: кази́но (kazíno) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Macedonian: коцкарница (kockarnica) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Malay: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Maltese: każinò — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Māori: whare-purei-moni — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Māori: whare petipeti — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Marathi: कॅसिनो (kĕsino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Marathi: जुगारगृह (jugārgŕh) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Mongolian: казино (kazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Navajo: naʼazhǫǫsh — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Nepali: जुवाघर (juvāghar) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Nepali: क्यासिनो (kyāsino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Iranian Persian: کازینو (kâzino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Iranian Persian: قِمارْخانِه (ġemârxâne) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Polish: kasyno — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Portuguese: cassino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Portuguese: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Romanian: cazinou — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Russian: казино́ (kazinó) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Russian: иго́рный дом (igórnyj dom) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̀цка̄рница — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Serbo-Croatian: казино — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Serbo-Croatian: kòckārnica — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Serbo-Croatian: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Shan: ပၢင်တေႃႇလွင်း (pǎang tàu láung) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Sinhalese: කැසිනෝ (kæsinō) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Slovak: kasíno — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Spanish: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Swahili: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Swedish: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Tagalog: kasino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Tajik: казино (kazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Tajik: қиморхона (qimorxona) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Tamil: கசினோ (kaciṉō) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Tatar: казино (qäzino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Thai: บ่อน (bɔ̀n) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Thai: กาสิโน (gaa-sì-noo) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Thai: คาสิโน (kaa-sì-noo) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Tok Pisin: haus laki — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Turkish: kumarhane — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Turkish: gazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Ottoman Turkish: قمارخانه (kumarhâne) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Ottoman Turkish: قازینو (kazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Turkmen: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Ukrainian: казино́ (kazynó) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Urdu: کَیسِینو (kaisīno) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Urdu: جُوا خانَہ (juā xāna) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Uyghur: كازىنو (kazino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Uzbek: kazino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Uzbek: qimorxona — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Vietnamese: sòng bạc — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Welsh: casino — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Yiddish: קאַסינאָ (kasino) — public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
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