CASINO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does casino mean? 

• CASINO (noun)
  The noun CASINO has 2 senses:

1. a public building for gambling and entertainment

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

  Familiarity information: CASINO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASINO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public building for gambling and entertainment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

casino; gambling casino

Hypernyms ("casino" is a kind of...):

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

casino; cassino

Hypernyms ("casino" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "casino"):

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)

 Context examples 

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the evening I used to go back to the prison, and walk up and down the parade with Mr. Micawber; or play casino with Mrs. Micawber, and hear reminiscences of her papa and mama.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)