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Venice

Venice

160 1.0
A city in northeastern Italy built on islands with canals and old buildings
  • proper noun
  • /ˈvɛnɪs/
translation icon : Venecia
  • You know, Diane's never really seen the canals, so I'm gonna take this all the way to Venice.
  • the city of Venice
  • Venice and Rome
  • Venice and Florence

And I remember we went to Venice and it'd been about a year.

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Examples

  • She says she's in Venice on urgent business.

  • The gondola ride in Venice was the highlight of our trip.

  • This is you at the Venice Film Festival.

  • And we went all the way to Venice and this is what happened.

  • There was an incident in Venice at the Film Festival.

  • We sail from Venice a week from today.

  • We are officially walking the streets of Venice along with canals.

  • It's about an older man named Aschenbach who goes to Venice for a vacation.

  • I know you don't like Venice, but it'll be good for us to have some time together.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The fall of Venice in 1797 marked a serious decline of trade in the Adriatic.

    Academic text (1993)

Compounds

A part of the northern Adriatic Sea between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia

How Big

metropolis
175 5.2
Venice
160 1.0
town
1.0
village
1.0
hamlet
24 5.0

Surface Forms

Venice main

Etymology

Venice comes from the name of an old people, the Veneti, who lived by the lagoon in northeastern Italy and gave their name to the region Venetia. So Venice means 'city of the Veneti', and you can see the same root in Venetian, which means 'from Venice'.