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CASSINO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cassino mean?
• CASSINO (noun)
The noun CASSINO has 1 sense:
1. a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand
Familiarity information: CASSINO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("cassino" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cassino"):
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
Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her party.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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