say it: kas-uh-NOH-vah
casanova is a noun meaning "an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
any man noted for his amorous adventures
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 casanova 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.