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kursaal

kursaal noun: a public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino.

Noun

kursaal (plural kursaals)

  1. A public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino
    • It was not the polished serenity of fashionable kursaals, the impassive languor of aristocratic gaming-tables, the self-destruction taken with a light word, of the salles of Baden, of Homburg, of Monaco; it was gambling in all its unreined fever, […]1871, Ouida, Chandos, Reprint edition (Fiction), Elibron, published 2001, →ISBN, page 343
    • Use your eyes, man. Look at the Kursaal, its luxuries, its gardens, its gilding, its attractions, all of them cheap, except the one that pays for all; all these delights, and the rents, and the croupiers, and the servants, and the income and liveries of an unprincipled prince, who would otherwise...1877, Charles Reade, chapter V, in A Woman-Hater

kursaal meaning in Tamil

kursaal in Tamil

விருந்தகம்

Examples of kursaal in a sentence

  • Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal.1879, Henry James, chapter III, in Confidence, London: Chatto & Windus:
  • Kursaal is a German word for casino, and a cosmopolitan term that became popular in the Belle Epoque.[2001, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award, Digitized edition...

Forms of kursaal

pluralkursaals
alternative formKursaal

Origin of kursaal

Borrowed from German Kursaal, from Kur (“cure”) + Saal (“hall”).

Questions about kursaal

What does kursaal mean?
Kursaal means a public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino.
What is kursaal in Tamil?
Kursaal in Tamil is விருந்தகம். See Kursaal meaning in Tamil.
How do you use kursaal in a sentence?
Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal.
What part of speech is kursaal?
Kursaal is a noun.
What is the plural of kursaal?
The plural of kursaal is kursaals.

Words near kursaal in the dictionary

  1. kurre
  2. Kurri Kurri
  3. Kurrichane thrush
  4. Kurrichane thrushes
  5. Kurrupuwu
  6. kursaal
  7. kursaals
  8. kursi
  9. kursis
  10. Kursk
  11. Kursk Oblast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kursaal (page history and authors); kursaal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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