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uno

/ˈuː.noʊ/

uno interjection: a term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.

Interjection

  1. (Uno) A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Uno

Uno

  1. A card game similar to crazy eights, played with specially printed cards that have colours instead of suits.
    • With five kids, I’ve played a lot of Uno over the years, and I’m going to be honest: Uno is less of a card game and more of a test of your fortitude and moral character.2025 June 29, Charlotte Hilton Andersen, “Here Are the Official Uno Rules—And the Super-Fun Unofficial Ones Too”, in Reader's Digest, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2025

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Uno

Uno (plural Unos)

  1. A female given name from Japanese.
  2. A surname from Japanese.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: UNO

UNO

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of United Nations Organization.

Proper noun (4) capitalized: UNO

UNO

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Uno (“card game”).
    • To be able to profit from the moment of playfulness we combined the card-game UNO with some additional question cards following the standard rules of the game. We chose this well-known card game as basis, because it is easy to play for children, but also addresses adults.2007 Regina Bernhaupt, Astrid Weiss, Marianna Obrist and Manfred Tscheligi, “Playful Probing: Making Probing More Fun”, Human-computer interaction—INTERACT 2007, volume 1, page 610
    • Everybody knows how to play UNO but this time there’s a twist, every time you get a ‘Skip’ or ‘Draw’ card you have to take a shot of this …2010, Marlon McCaulsky, “Real Love”, in Marlon McCaulsky, Jarold Imes, Love & Life, Winston-Salem, N.C.: Abednego’s Free, LLC, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Drinking UNO- November 10ᵗʰ 1994), page 27

uno meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

uno in Hindi

यूनो, ऊनो

uno in Tamil

யுனோ, யூனோ

uno in Marathi

युनो, यूनो, उनो

uno in Bengali

উনো, ইউনো
More languagesFewer languages
uno in Telugu
యునో, ఊనో
uno in Malayalam
യുണോ
uno in Kannada
ಯು. ಎನ್. ಓ, ಯು. ಎನ್. ಒ
uno in Punjabi
ਯੂਨੋ, ਯੂ. ਐੱਨ. ਓ
uno in Odia
ଉନୋ
uno in Nepali
उनो

Forms of uno

alternative formUNO
pluralUnos
alternative formU.N.O.
alternative formU. N. O.

Origin of uno

PIE word *h₁óynos Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish uno (“one”); players must call "uno" when down to their last card. Doublet of an and one.

Borrowed from Japanese 宇野 (Uno) or うの (Uno).

Phrases with uno

Questions about uno

What does uno mean?
Uno means a term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.
What is uno in Hindi?
Uno in Hindi is यूनो, ऊनो. See Uno meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is uno?
Uno can be an interjection or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce uno?
Uno is pronounced /ˈuː.noʊ/.

Words near uno in the dictionary

  1. unnurturing
  2. unnutritional
  3. unnutritious
  4. unnutritive
  5. unnymphlike
  6. uno
  7. uno ab alto
  8. uno flatu
  9. uno momento
  10. uno momento, por favor
  11. Uno reverse card

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uno (page history and authors); Uno (page history and authors); UNO (page history and authors); uno (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uno (Nepali, 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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