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canasta

/kəˈnæs.tə/

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noun

/kəˈnæs.tə/C1formal
  • ruКарточная игра, разновидность рамми, в которую играют двумя колодами карт и четырьмя джокерами, где джокеры и двойки являются дикими, а цель — составлять группы карт одного ранга.

A card game, a variant of rummy, played with two decks of cards and four jokers, where jokers and deuces are wild and the objective is to form groups of cards of the same rank.

uncountable

  1. B2formal

    A card game similar to rummy, played with two decks of cards and four jokers, where jokers and twos are wild cards, and the goal is to form melds of cards of the same rank.

    ruКарточная игра

    • They spent the evening playing canasta with friends.
    • She learned the rules of canasta from her grandmother.
    • In canasta, a meld of seven cards is called a canasta.
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