Canasta

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A card game for two to six players, related to rummy and requiring two or three decks of cards.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
  • n. A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rummy    rum   
    Hyponym
    samba    Bolivia   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    basket rummy    meld   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Casta    Shasta    basta    hasta   
    Same Context
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