Casino Meaning
/kəˈsiːnəʊ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA public building or room for gambling.
nounA small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
Sentence Examples
After three hours in the casino, he's $2,000 in the hole.
He's a casino dealer.
A new hotel and casino in Las Vegas
CEFR Practice Quiz
He lost all his savings gambling at the ____ in Las Vegas.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They spent the whole evening playing poker and roulette at the ____ tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He lost all his savings gambling at the ____ in Las Vegas.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They spent the whole evening playing poker and roulette at the ____ tonight.