How to pronounce canasta
American English pronunciation
kuh-NAS-tuh
- IPA
- /kəˈnæstə/
- Syllables
- kuh · NAS · tuh (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What canasta means
A card game of collecting sets of seven matching cards
In a sentence: Every Sunday my grandparents play canasta at the kitchen table.
Where it comes from: It is a Spanish word meaning basket, and the game started in Uruguay.
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