casino

See also: Casino and casinò

English

Alternative forms

• cassino (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈsiːnəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈsiːnəʉ/, /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
• Rhymes: -iːnəʊ

Noun

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

1. A public building or room for gambling.
   • 2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
   • 1786 July 3, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

     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.

   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 163:

     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.

3. (uncountable) A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
4. (countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.

Derived terms

• anticasino
• big casino
• casino capitalism
• casino hotel
• casinoization
• casinolike
• clams casino
• cybercasino
• e-casino
• great casino
• little casino
• megacasino
• minicasino
• noncasino
• racino
• royal casino
• subcasino
• supercasino

Translations

public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling

• Albanian: kazino
• Arabic: كَازِينُو m (kāzīnū)
• Armenian: խաղատուն (hy) (xaġatun), կազինո (hy) (kazino)
• Azerbaijani: qumarxana, kazino
• Belarusian: казіно́ n (kazinó)
• Bengali: ক্যাসিনো (bn) (kêśinō)
• Bulgarian: казино́ n (kazinó)
• Burmese: ကက်စီနို (my) (kakcinui)
• Catalan: casino m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 賭場 / 赌场 (dou² coeng⁴)

  Hokkien: 繳場 / 缴场 (kiáu-tiûⁿ), 繳間 / 缴间 (kiáu-keng), 繳岫 / 缴岫 (kiáu-siū), 繳窟 / 缴窟 (kiáu-khut)

  Mandarin: 賭場 / 赌场 (zh) (dǔchǎng), 卡西諾 / 卡西诺 (kǎxīnuò)

• Czech: kasino n
• Danish: kasino n
• Dutch: casino (nl) n, speelhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: kazino
• Estonian: kasiino (et)
• Finnish: kasino (fi)
• French: casino (fr) m
• Galician: casino (gl) m
• Georgian: კაზინო (ḳazino), სამორინე (samorine)
• German: Kasino (de) n, Spielbank (de) f
• Greek: καζίνο (el) (kazíno)

  Ancient: κυβεῖον n (kubeîon)

• Gujarati: કસિનો m (kasino), જુગારખાનું n (jugārkhānũ)
• Hebrew: קָזִינוֹ (he) (kazino)
• Hindi: कैसिनो (kaisino), कज़ीनो (kazīno), जुआखाना (hi) m (juākhānā), जुआघर m (juāghar)
• Hungarian: kaszinó (hu)
• Icelandic: spilavíti
• Ido: kazino (io)
• Indonesian: kasino (id)
• Italian: casinò (it) m
• Japanese: 賭場 (ja) (とば, toba), カジノ (ja) (kajino)
• Kazakh: ойынхана (oiynxana), құмархана (qūmarxana)
• Khmer: រឿណរង្គ (km) (rɨən rŭəng), កាស៊ីណូ (kaasiinou)
• Korean: 카지노 (kajino)
• Kyrgyz: казино (kazino), кумаркана (kumarkana)
• Lao: ຄາສິໂນ (khā si nō)
• Latin: āleātōrium n
• Latvian: kazino
• Lithuanian: kazino (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Casino
• Macedonian: кази́но n (kazíno), коцкарница f (kockarnica)
• Malay: kasino
• Maori: whare-purei-moni, whare petipeti
• Marathi: कॅसिनो m (kĕsino), जुगारगृह n (jugārgruh)
• Mongolian: казино (mn) (kazino)
• Navajo: naʼazhǫǫsh
• Nepali: जुवाघर (juvāghar), क्यासिनो (kyāsino)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kasino (no) n

  Nynorsk: kasino n

• Ottoman Turkish: قمارخانه (kumarhâne)
• Persian: کازینو (fa) (kâzino), قمارخانه (qomârxâne)
• Polish: kasyno (pl) n
• Portuguese: cassino (pt) m (Brazil), casino (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: cazinou (ro) n
• Russian: казино́ (ru) n (kazinó), иго́рный дом (ru) m (igórnyj dom)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коцкарница f, казино n

  Roman: kockarnica (sh) f, kazino n

• Shan: ပၢင်တေႃႇလွင်း (pǎang tàu láung)
• Sinhalese: කැසිනෝ (kæsinō)
• Slovak: kasíno n
• Spanish: casino (es) m
• Swahili: kasino (sw)
• Swedish: kasino (sv) n
• Tagalog: kasino
• Tajik: казино (tg) (kazino), қиморхона (qimorxona)
• Tamil: கசினோ (kaciṉō)
• Tatar: казино (qazino)
• Thai: บ่อน (th) (bɔ̀n), กาสิโน (th) (gaa-sì-noo), คาสิโน (th) (kaa-sì-noo)
• Turkish: kumarhane (tr), gazino (tr)
• Turkmen: kazino
• Ukrainian: казино́ (uk) n (kazynó)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: kazino (uz), qimorxona (uz)
• Vietnamese: sòng bạc (vi) (𣙩白)
• Welsh: casino m
• Yiddish: קאַסינאָ (kasino)

Further reading

• “casino”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “casino”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “casino”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈzi.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈzi.no]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈzi.no]

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. private club

Derived terms

• casino de joc

Related terms

• casa

Further reading

• “casino”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Borrowed from French or directly from Italian?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈzi.noː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
• Rhymes: -inoː

Noun

casino m (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)

1. casino, gambling house

   Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms

• casinobrood
• casinokapitalisme

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kasino

French

Etymology

From Italian, possibly via English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi.no/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. a casino

Descendants

• → Italian: casinò

Further reading

• “casino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Alternative forms

• casinò (casino; place to gamble)

Etymology

From casa +‎ -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈzi.no/, (traditional) /kaˈsi.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: ca‧sì‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casini)

1. (colloquial, vulgar) brothel
2. (informal, see usage notes) mess
3. (informal, see usage notes) noisy situation

   Synonyms: baccano, confusione

4. (informal, see usage notes) a large amount, shitload

   Qua c'abbiamo un casino di roba ancora da parte.

   Over here we've got one crapload of stuff still in reserve.

5. hunting lodge
6. casino
7. a particular card game

Usage notes

Sometimes considered a swear word or vulgar by some people (typically older)

Derived terms

• casinista
• incasinare

Descendants

• → English: casino
• → Ladino: gazino
• → Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)
  • Turkish: gazino
• → Portuguese: casino
• → Spanish: casino

Anagrams

• -iscano, Nicaso, Sancio, Scanio, Scianò, anciso, ascino, casoni, cosina, in caso, sciano, sicano, sonica

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈzi.nu/

• Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. European Portuguese standard form of cassino

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsino/ [kaˈsi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: ca‧si‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. casino
2. (Chile) cafeteria, canteen (staff restaurant)

Further reading

• “casino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

casino n

1. alternative spelling of kasino

Declension

Declension of casino

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	casino	casinos
	definite	casinot	casinots
plural	indefinite	casinon	casinons
	definite	casinona	casinonas