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say it: kuh-NA-stuh
canasta is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /kəˈnæstə/ — kuh-NA-stuh. It carries one recorded sense.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for canasta come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.