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UK/kəˈsiːnəʊ/Canada, US/kæˈsinoʊ/Canada, US/kəˈsinoʊ/Australia/kəˈsiːnəʉ/

noun

A public building or room for gambling.

“We valeted our car and entered the casino.”

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gambling casinocassino
OriginItalian casino ← Latin casa →
Very commonScrabble 8
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Meanings

casino1

nouncasino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)

plural casinos · plural casinoes · plural casini · alternative dated cassino

  1. countableuncountableA public building or room for gambling.

    We valeted our car and entered the casino.

    1 more example

    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
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableA 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
    1 more example

    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
  3. uncountableA certain Italian card game for two to four players.
  4. countableAny of certain cards with special meanings in this game.

Casino2

proper noun
  1. A town in the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna public building for gambling and entertainment

Similar
gambling casino
Broader
gambling housegambling dengambling hell

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

Similar
cassino
Broader
card gamecards
Also see
cassino

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latincasa
  2. Italiancasa
  3. Italiancasino
  4. Englishcasino

From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).

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Translations

Ancient Greek κυβεῖον
  • κυβεῖον (kubeîon)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Arabic كَازِينُو, نَادِي الْقِمَار
  • كَازِينُو (kāzīnū)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • نَادِي الْقِمَار (nādī l-qimār)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Bengali ক্যাসিনো
  • ক্যাসিনো (kêśinō)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Bulgarian казино́
  • казино́ (kazinó)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Catalan casino
  • casinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Chinese Cantonese 賭場 /赌场
  • 賭場 /赌场 (dou² coeng⁴)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Chinese Mandarin 賭場 /赌场, 卡西諾 /卡西诺
  • 賭場 /赌场 (dǔchǎng)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • 卡西諾 /卡西诺 (kǎxīnuò)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • 賭博場 /赌博场 (dǔbóchǎng)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Czech kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Danish kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Dutch casino, speelhuis
  • casinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • speelhuispublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Esperanto kazino
  • kazinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Estonian kasiino
  • kasiinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Finnish kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
French casino
  • casinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
German Kasino, Spielbank
  • Kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • Spielbankpublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Greek καζίνο
  • καζίνο (kazíno)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Hebrew קָזִינוֹ
  • קָזִינוֹ (kazíno)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Hindi कैसिनो, कज़ीनो
  • कैसिनो (kaisino)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • कज़ीनो (kazīno)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • जुआखाना (juākhānā)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • जुआख़ाना (juāxānā)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • जुआघर (juāghar)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Hungarian kaszinó
  • kaszinópublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Icelandic spilavíti
  • spilavítipublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Indonesian kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Irish casaíne
  • casaínepublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Italian casinò
  • casinòpublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Japanese 賭場, カジノ
  • 賭場 (toba)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • カジノ (kajino)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • 賭博場 (tobakujō)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Korean 카지노, 도박장
  • 카지노 (kajino)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • 도박장 (dobakjang)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Latin āleātōrium
  • āleātōriumpublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Latvian kazino
  • kazinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Lithuanian kazino
  • kazinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Malay kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Māori whare-purei-moni, whare petipeti
  • whare-purei-monipublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • whare petipetipublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Norwegian Bokmål kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Polish kasyno
  • kasynopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Portuguese cassino, casino
  • cassinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • casinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Romanian cazinou
  • cazinoupublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Russian казино́, иго́рный дом
  • казино́ (kazinó)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • иго́рный дом (igórnyj dom)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Slovak kasíno
  • kasínopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Spanish casino
  • casinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Swahili kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Swedish kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Tagalog kasino
  • kasinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Tamil கசினோ
  • கசினோ (kaciṉō)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Thai บ่อน, กาสิโน
  • บ่อน (bɔ̀n)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • กาสิโน (gaa-sì-noo)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • คาสิโน (kaa-sì-noo)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Turkish kumarhane, gazino
  • kumarhanepublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • gazinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Ukrainian казино́
  • казино́ (kazynó)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Urdu کَیسِینو, جُوا خانَہ
  • کَیسِینو (kaisīno)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
  • جُوا خانَہ (juā xāna)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Vietnamese sòng bạc
  • sòng bạcpublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Welsh casino
  • casinopublic building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
Yiddish קאַסינאָ
  • קאַסינאָ (kasino)public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with casino

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Anagrams

SicanoCaison
Cite this entry
APA

casino. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/casino

MLA

“casino.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/casino. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “casino,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/casino.

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