English

Noun

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, 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.

2. (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.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish canasta

Alternative forms

• kanasta

Noun

canasta

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

Declension

Anagrams

• ansaat, nastaa, natsaa, saatan, santaa, sataan, satana

French

Etymology

Spanish canasta ‎(“basket”).

Noun

canasta f ‎(uncountable)

1. canasta

Spanish

Noun

canasta f ‎(plural canastas)

1. basket
2. (card games) canasta
3. (basketball) basket, hoop

Synonyms

• cesto
• cesta