Veneto
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- proper noun
- In Veneto alone, more than two million people emigrated between 1881 and 1901.
- Veneto and Lombardy
- Veneto and Romagna
- Veneto and Emilia
Examples
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We're starting off with the oldest and most beautiful vineyard in all of Veneto.
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Late September: the pearly, early morning mist of autumnal Veneto would soon burn off and spill sun over the countryside that we sped through by bus, an Elderhostel group from Padua.
Academic text (2008) -
She's The Best Cook In The Veneto.
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I have a little apartment just off the Via Veneto, up near the Villa Borghese.
Fiction book (1990) -
In Italy, in the Veneto, the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto is an insistently self-reflexive example of local literature.
Academic text (1995) -
By the late eighteenth century, pellagra was common in Lombardy and Veneto, where corn was being cultivated extensively by a growing number of landless day laborers, especially in the plains.
Academic text (1992) -
The Veneto region is renowned for its stunning architecture and waterways, including the famous city of Venice.
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I visited a charming vineyard located in the Veneto region of Italy.
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Many tourists enjoy exploring the art and culture of Veneto each year.
Synonyms
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A region in the northeast of Italy on the Adriatic coast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Veneto comes from the people called the Veneti and originally meant the 'land of the Veneti'. The same root is in the name Venezia (Venice), so Veneto still names the region around Venice and its cities today.