casino
noun
ca·si·no
kə-ˈsē-(ˌ)nō 
plural casinos
1
: a building or room used for social amusements
specifically
: one used for gambling
2
or less commonly cassino
: a card game in which cards are won by matching or combining cards in a hand with those exposed on the table
Examples of casino in a Sentence
on summer evenings dance bands would perform in the seaside casino
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Those include a car wash across the parking lot from the former Players Club, a Lake County casino, and the entities that own strip malls that housed several casinos that were named in documents related to Lopez’s case.
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Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025
Also suggested by the working group was reallocating some funds generated by the Grand Victoria riverboat casino in Elgin to further minimize the budget shortfall.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
The 27-year-old shooter, identified by the NYPD, held a Nevada state license to work in casino surveillance from 2019 through 2024 and worked at the Horseshoe Las Vegas, according to Caesars Entertainment, which owns the casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 30 July 2025
Two men in town for a bachelor party and a local man driving through a parking lot were killed in Monday morning’s shooting outside a resort and casino in Reno, Nevada, police said.
—Cnn.com, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
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Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025
Also suggested by the working group was reallocating some funds generated by the Grand Victoria riverboat casino in Elgin to further minimize the budget shortfall.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
The 27-year-old shooter, identified by the NYPD, held a Nevada state license to work in casino surveillance from 2019 through 2024 and worked at the Horseshoe Las Vegas, according to Caesars Entertainment, which owns the casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 30 July 2025
Two men in town for a bachelor party and a local man driving through a parking lot were killed in Monday morning’s shooting outside a resort and casino in Reno, Nevada, police said.
—Cnn.com, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
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“Casino.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casino. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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