casino
/kəˈsiːnəʊ/US/kæˈsinoʊ/
casino noun: a public building or room for gambling.
Noun
casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)
- A public building or room for gambling.
- We valeted our car and entered the casino.
- A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia.2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian
- A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
- Quirini [was] knowing in the belles Lettres, & highly skilled in making his Casino comfortable to all the Wits & Blues as we now call them in London.1786 July 3, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
- I felt it strange, and regretted it, that so amiable a man should have contracted such dissolute habits, and at this very time, instead of living respectably with his charming Countess, had Baccelli, the superannuated dancing courtesan, in a casino in the neighbourhood.1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 163
- A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
- Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
Proper noun capitalized: Casino
Casino
- A town in the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
casino meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
casino in Hindi
- public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
- कैसिनो kaisino, कज़ीनो kazīno, जुआखाना juākhānā, जुआख़ाना juāxānā, जुआघर juāghar
casino in Tamil
- public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
- கசினோ kaciṉō
casino in Marathi
- public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
- कॅसिनो kĕsino, जुगारगृह jugārgŕh
casino in Urdu
- public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
- کَیسِینو kaisīno, جُوا خانَہ juā xāna
More languagesFewer languages
- casino in Bengali
- ক্যাসিনো kêśinō
- casino in Telugu
- క్యాసినో, కాసినో
- casino in Malayalam
- നൃത്തസംഗീതശാല, ചൂതാട്ടസ്ഥലം, ചൂതുകളിസ്ഥലം, സംഗീതനൃത്താദികൾക്കുള്ള ശാല
- casino in Kannada
- ಕ್ಯಾಸಿನೊ, ಕ್ಯಾಸಿನೋ
- casino in Punjabi
- ਕੈਸਿਨੋ, ਕੈਸੀਨੋ, ਕੇਸਿਨੋ
- casino in Gujarati
- કસિનો kasino, જુગારખાનું jugārkhānũ
- casino in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାସିନୋ, କ୍ଯାସିନୋ, କାସିନୋ
- casino in Sinhala
- කැසිනෝ kæsinō
- casino in Nepali
- जुवाघर juvāghar, क्यासिनो kyāsino
- casino in Tagalog
- kasino
- casino in Arabic
- كَازِينُو kāzīnū, نَادِي الْقِمَار nādī l-qimār
- casino in Malay
- kasino
- casino in Indonesian
- kasino
- casino in Thai
- บ่อน bɔ̀n, กาสิโน gaa-sì-noo, คาสิโน kaa-sì-noo
- casino in Vietnamese
- sòng bạc
- casino in Myanmar
- ကက်စီနို kakcinui
Examples of casino in a sentence
- I can’t believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
- The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.
- There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.
Forms of casino
| plural | casinos |
|---|---|
| plural | casinoes |
| plural | casini |
| alternative form (dated) | cassino |
Origin of casino
From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Words formed from casino
Phrases with casino
Words that rhyme with casino
Questions about casino
- What does casino mean?
- Casino means a public building or room for gambling.
- What is casino in Hindi?
- Casino in Hindi is कैसिनो (kaisino), कज़ीनो (kazīno), जुआखाना (juākhānā). See Casino meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is casino?
- Casino can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce casino?
- Casino is pronounced /kəˈsiːnəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of casino?
- The plural of casino is casinos.
Words near casino in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: casino (page history and authors); Casino (page history and authors); casino (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casino (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); casino (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casino (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casino (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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