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venice
/ˈvɛnəs/
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What does venice mean?
proper noun
- A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the region of Veneto, Italy; former capital of an independent republic.
- A metropolitan city of Veneto, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Venice.
- A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A city in Sarasota County, Florida.
- A township in Madison County, Illinois.
- A township in Shiawassee County, Michigan.
- A township in Seneca County, Ohio.
- (historical) A former province of Veneto.
- (historical) A former polity in Europe, a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from CE 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvɛnəs/
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The way to Ireland was only the first stage on a roundabout road—the road that led to the palace at Venice.
But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.
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He went back to him again, and declared that he could not carry him to Venice for less than thirty thousand piastres.
I will have the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of Venice I can make what merchandise I will.
Indeed, he had become the greatest painter in Venice, the first of that wonderful Venetian school which learned to paint such marvellous colour.