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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COONCAN

From (Mexican) Spanish con quién with whom?, apparently with reference to the forming and declaring of sequences and sets of cards.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COONCAN

cooncan  [ˈkuːnˌkæn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COONCAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cooncan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COONCAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cooncan

Conquian

Conquian is a card game whose origins are in dispute. Some believe the game originated in Spain hundreds of years ago, and was then brought to Mexico. Others strongly believe the game actually originated in Mexico in the mid-1800s. It was first described as Coon Can in 1887 and then in detail in R. F. Foster's Hoyle in 1897.Robert F. Foster “traces Conquian back to the early 1860s.” According to David Parlett, it is an ancestor to all modern rummy games, a kind of proto-Gin Rummy.David Parlett also notes that the 1920s American card-game writer Robert F. Foster “traces Conquian back to the early 1860s.” The name is thought to either derive from "con quién" – Spanish "with whom", or from the Chinese game Kon Khin, a variation of the earlier game Khanhoo. It is sometimes corrupted to Coon Can, Councan, Conca and Cuncá, a South American variation of the game. In 19th-century Mexican literature the word is spelled cunquián, showing thus it has nothing to do with the phrase "¿Con quién?".

Definition of cooncan in the English dictionary

The definition of cooncan in the dictionary is a card game for two players, similar to rummy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COONCAN


astrakhan
ˌæstrəˈkæn
barracan
ˈbærəˌkæn
billycan
ˈbɪlɪˌkæn
can
kæn
cancan
ˈkænˌkæn
cann
kæn
Cannes
kæn
glucan
ˈɡluːˌkæn
glycan
ˈɡlaɪkæn
ICANN
ˈaɪkæn
jerrican
ˈdʒɛrɪˌkæn
oilcan
ˈɔɪlˌkæn
pecan
pɪˈkæn
peptidoglycan
ˌpɛptɪdəʊˈɡlaɪkæn
photoscan
ˈfəʊtəʊˌskæn
proteoglycan
ˌprəʊtɪəʊˈɡlaɪkæn
scan
skæn
scintiscan
ˈsɪntɪˌskæn
Spokane
spəʊˈkæn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COONCAN

coolly
coolness
coolth
cooly
coom
Coomaraswamy
coomb
coombe
coomceiled
coomy
coon
coon´s age
coondog
coonhound
coonskin
coontie
coop
coop.
cooped up
cooper

WORDS THAT END LIKE COONCAN

African
African-American
all-American
American
Dominican
Duncan
Incan
Jamaican
Latin American
Mexican
Moroccan
Native American
North American
pelican
republican
South African
South American
Tuscan
Vatican
Vulcan

Synonyms and antonyms of cooncan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cooncan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COONCAN

Find out the translation of cooncan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cooncan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cooncan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cooncan
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cooncan
570 millions of speakers

English

cooncan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cooncan
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cooncan
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cooncan
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cooncan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cooncan
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cooncan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cooncan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cooncan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cooncan
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cooncan
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cooncan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cooncan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cooncan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोनन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cooncan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cooncan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cooncan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cooncan
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cooncan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cooncan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cooncan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cooncan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cooncan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cooncan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COONCAN»

The term «cooncan» is used very little and occupies the 193.523 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COONCAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cooncan» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cooncan» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cooncan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COONCAN»

Discover the use of cooncan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cooncan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cooncan: A Game of Cards Also Called Rum
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series.
Robert F. Foster, 2010
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Cooncan: A Game of Cards Also Called Rum
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series.
Robert F. Foster, 2010
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African-American ...
He talked of switching dice in gambling houses, hustling suckers in cooncan. " Cooncan," he said, "is a serious game. It's just about as serious as chess. And chess is sure enough serious. Because it's really wits, a game of wits, battle of nerves.
Bruce Jackson, 2004
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The Everything Games Book: 600 Classic Games and Activities ...
Cooncan Rating: 8+ Cooncan is played by two people, with a pack of forty cards. Remove the the Eights, Nines, and Tens from a complete pack. The cards rank in the following order: Ace, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Jack, Queen, and ...
Lesley Bolton, 2005
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Deep Down in the Jungle: Black American Folklore from the ...
The Toast can be understood only by a knowledge of the strategy of the games of pool and cooncan. The pool game speaks for itself, the object obviously being to sink as many balls in their numerical order as possible without missing.
Roger D. Abrahams, 2006
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The Long Shadow
2. Chapter. Prune. Pie. and. Cooncan. Of a truth, Charming Billy Boyle, living his life in the wide land that is too big and too far removed from the manmade world for any butthestrong of heart, knew littleindeedof women—her kind ofwomen.
B.M. Bower, 2007
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Five-Mile River (Mass.) BT Rivers—Massachusetts Cooncan USE Coon can ( Game) Coone family USE Kuhn family Coonemesset Pond (Mass.) USE Coonamessett Pond (Mass.) Coonemesset River (Mass.) USE Coonamessett River (Mass.) ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2004
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Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas
before. The Mexicans called their game cooncan and they liked to gamble heavily on it. If anything, the Mexicans were even heavier drinkers and gamblers than the white loggers, and June was fascinated by them. Cooncan was played with a ...
Jerome Tuccille, 2003
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The Scrabble Word-Building Book: Updated Edition
Updated Edition COOLLY 144. COOLLY -; - COPECK -; copecks COOLTH -; coolths COOMB -; copens COOMB -; coombes COPEPOD -; copepods coombs COPER -; copers COOMBE -; coombes COPED scoped; - COON -; coons COPIED - ...
‎2007
10
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, ...
See alsoK. cancan/Cancún/cooncancancan/Cancún/cooncan I got to wondering whether these words had anything in common, so I went to Google. Believe it or not, it would appear that the three of them have not appeared together in one text  ...
Roy Blount Jr., 2009

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« EDUCALINGO. Cooncan [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cooncan>. May 2024 ».
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