canasta
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈnæstə/
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
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkaːˈnɑs.taː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧nas‧ta
- Rhymes: -ɑstaː
Finnish
Alternative forms
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 canastainrare | |
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 | |
instructive | — | canastoin | |
abessive | canastatta | canastoitta | |
comitative | — | canastoineen |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.nas.ta/
Further reading
- “canasta” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈnasta/, [kaˈnast̪a]
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