canasta
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Pronunciation
Noun
canasta (plural canastas)
- (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492,
- “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
- “Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”
- 2004, Gregory Bateson, 15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy, Henry Bial (editor), The Performance Studies Reader, page 130,
- Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
- 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page,
- Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492,
- (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
- 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47,
- Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
- 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47,
Translations
card game
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish canasta.
Pronunciation
Noun
canasta f (plural canasta's)
- (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
- (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
canasta
- canasta (card game)
- canasta (meld of seven cards in above)
Declension
Inflection of canasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | canasta | canastat | ||
genitive | canastan | canastojen | ||
partitive | canastaa | canastoja | ||
illative | canastaan | canastoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | canasta | canastat | ||
accusative | nom. | canasta | canastat | |
gen. | canastan | |||
genitive | canastan | canastojen canastain rare | ||
partitive | canastaa | canastoja | ||
inessive | canastassa | canastoissa | ||
elative | canastasta | canastoista | ||
illative | canastaan | canastoihin | ||
adessive | canastalla | canastoilla | ||
ablative | canastalta | canastoilta | ||
allative | canastalle | canastoille | ||
essive | canastana | canastoina | ||
translative | canastaksi | canastoiksi | ||
abessive | canastatta | canastoitta | ||
instructive | — | canastoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
Noun
canasta f (uncountable)
Further reading
- “canasta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cānistrum. Cognate with English canister.
Pronunciation
Noun
canasta f (plural canastas)
- basket
- (card games) canasta
- (basketball) basket, hoop
- (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- canasta de mimbre (“wicker basket”)
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