casino
pronunciation
How to pronounce casino in British English:
UK [kəˈsiːnəʊ]
How to pronounce casino in American English:
US [kəˈsiːnoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a public building for gambling and entertainment
- a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand
Word Origin
- casino (n.)
- 1744, "public room for music or dancing," from Italian casino, literally "a little house," diminutive of casa "house," from Latin casa "hut, cottage, cabin," which is of uncertain origin. The card game (also cassino) is attested by that name from 1792. Specifically as "building for aristocratic gambling" by 1820, first in an Italian context. [T]he term Casino [is] indiscriminately applied to a set of farm offices, a country-seat, a gambling house, and a game of cards ... [Jane Waldie Watts, "Sketches Descriptive of Italy in the Years 1816 and 1817," London 1820]
Example
- 1. The motives for the casino royale attack remain unclear .
- 2. The casino had apparently not paid protection money .
- 3. Neither casino is advertised anywhere in singapore .
- 4. Shares have been traded like they were chips in a casino .
- 5. He has plans to open a second casino resort there by 2015 .