different between rummy vs canasta

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???mi/
• Rhymes: -?mi

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)

1. A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

Derived terms

• gin rummy
• Indian rummy
• Liverpool rummy

Translations

Etymology 2

rum +? -y

Adjective

rummy (comparative rummier, superlative rummiest)

1. Resembling or tasting of rum.

2. (Britain, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.

Derived terms

Noun

rummy (plural rummies)

1. A rum-drinking alcoholic.

English

Etymology

From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??næst?/

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

Anagrams

• Castana

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka??n?s.ta?/
• Hyphenation: ca?nas?ta
• Rhymes: -?sta?

Noun

canasta f (plural canasta's)

1. (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
2. (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)

Finnish

Alternative forms

• kanasta

Etymology

From Spanish canasta.

Noun

canasta

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

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.nas.ta/

Noun

canasta f (uncountable)

1. canasta

Further reading

• “canasta” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canasta.

Noun

canasta f (plural canastas)

1. (card games) canasta

References

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin canistrum. Cognate with English canister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nasta/, [ka?nas.t?a]

Noun

canasta f (plural canastas)

1. basket

   Synonyms: cesto, cesta

2. (card games) canasta
3. (basketball) basket, hoop
4. (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)

Derived terms

• canasta de mimbre (“wicker basket”)

Related terms

• canasto