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.

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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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Example Sentences

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.

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Allied soldiers described their shock at seeing Wojtek carrying artillery shells during the Battle of Monte Cassino.

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The letter was delivered to Mr Holland in time for a talk he was giving in his home city about his new book on the war's Italian campaign, Cassino ’44.

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Sometimes remembered as the "D-Day Dodgers", in reference to their role away from Normandy, men in Italy faced brutal conditions as they battled to take Monte Cassino and dislodge enemy soldiers.

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He fled agricultural service in Kilmarnock as a teenager to get to Glasgow to enlist as an infantryman before ending up "right in the forefront" of the battle for Monte Cassino.

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