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noun, plural ca·si·nos for 1.
1.
a building or large room used for meetings, entertainment, dancing, etc., especially such a place equipped with gambling devices, gambling tables, etc.
2.
(in Italy) a small country house or lodge.
Origin:
1780–90; < Italian, equivalent to cas(a) house + -ino diminutive suffix
1780–90; < Italian, equivalent to cas(a) house + -ino diminutive suffix
Related forms
sub·ca·si·no, noun, plural sub·ca·si·nos.
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Casino
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| casino (kəˈsiːnəʊ) | |
| —n , pl -nos | |
| 1. | a public building or room in which gaming takes place, esp roulette and card games such as baccarat and chemin de fer |
| 2. | a variant spelling of cassino |
| [C18: from Italian, diminutive of casa house, from Latin] | |
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Word Origin & History
casino
1744, "public room for music or dancing," from It. casino, dim. of casa "house," from L. casa "hut, shed," of uncertain origin. The card game is attested by that name from 1792.
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