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casino

UK/kəˈsiːnəʊ/US/kæˈsinoʊ/
nounB1Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,493 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: casinos

A casino is a place where people gamble at cards and machines. Go to a casino, a casino floor, casino chips.

The design is deliberate: no clocks, no windows, and a route to the exit that passes everything. The house edge means the operator wins over time whatever happens on any night, which is the whole business model. Note casino as an Italian diminutive meaning a little house — it named a small country villa and then a public room for music and gambling.

Sean MacEntee from Monaghan, Ireland · CC BY 2.0

Definitions of casino

  1. 1nouncasinoA place where people gamble at cards and machines.B1

    “They lost all their money playing roulette at the casino.”

casino is a gambling venue.

Where it comes from

Italian casino is a diminutive of casa, a house, from Latin casa, a hut. It named a small villa, then a public room, then this.

  1. Latin

    casa — cottage, hut

  2. Italian

    casino

  3. English, today

    casino

Built from

  • casa · Italian — house

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the City

Practise this word

casino in the wild

  • Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertainment, such as stand-up comedy, concerts, and sporting events.

    Casino

  • Slot machines have become one of the most popular forms of gambling in casinos.

    Casino

  • A casino game is one in which players gamble cash or chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes, often in a casino environment.

    Casino game

  • Such games are also available in online casinos, where permitted by law.

    Casino game

  • Slot machines are the most popular gambling method in casinos and contribute about 70% of the average U.S. casino's income.

    Slot machine

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.