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Cassino

American  
[kuh-see-noh, kahs-see-naw] / kəˈsi noʊ, kɑsˈsi nɔ /

noun

  1. a town in SE Latium, in central Italy, NNW of Naples: site of Monte Cassino.

Cassino 1 British  
/ kasˈsiːno /

noun

  1. Latin name: Casinum.  a town in central Italy, in Latium at the foot of Monte Cassino: an ancient Volscian (and later Roman) town and citadel. Pop: 32 762 (2001)

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cassino 2 British  
/ kəˈsiːnəʊ /

noun

  1. a card game for two to four players in which players pair cards from their hands with others exposed on the table

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There was also £12,000 to allow World War Two veterans to return to Monte Cassino in Italy in 2004, 60 years after Allied Forces won a crucial victory there.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

He was addressing Polish troops in Krakow, in the south, to mark 80 years since the allied victory in the Battle of Monte Cassino against the Nazis, during World War II.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024

Each episode is titled for a location — Radom, Warsaw and Siberia, but also Casablanca, Monte Cassino and Rio de Janeiro.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2024

At the time of his death, he was working on an action movie, Cassino in Ischia.

From BBC • May 22, 2023

What Monte Cassino is to Italy, and Mount Athos to Greece, Mar Sabas was then and is now to Palestine.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

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