canasta

From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnæstə/

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canasta (plural canastas)

1. (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”, in 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”, in 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.

2. (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
   • 1949 December 19, “The Canasta Craze”, in 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.

• Castana

Borrowed from Spanish canasta.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaːˈnɑs.taː/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧nas‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɑstaː

canasta f (plural canasta's)

1. (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
2. (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)

• kanasta

From Spanish canasta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑstɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝nɑ̝s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑstɑ

canasta

1. canasta (card game)
2. canasta (meld of seven cards in above)

• “canasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.nas.ta/

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canasta f (uncountable)

1. canasta

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

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish canasta (“canasta; basket, hoop; laundry basket, hamper; basket”), from Latin canistrum (“wicker basket”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kaˈnasta/ [kaˈnas.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: ca‧nas‧ta

canasta (plural canasta-canasta)

1. (card games) canasta

• “canasta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Spanish canasta.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -astɐ, -aʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧nas‧ta

canasta f (plural canastas)

1. (card games) canasta (game for two or four players, in which two decks of 52 cards are used, and whose objective is to obtain series of seven cards of equal value)

Inherited from Latin canistrum. Cognate with English canister.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnasta/ [kaˈnas.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: ca‧nas‧ta

canasta f (plural canastas)

1. basket

   Synonyms: cesto, cesta

2. (card games) canasta
3. (basketball) basket, hoop
4. (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)

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