lido
/ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/
lido noun: part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities. Also the clipping of lidocaine.
Noun (1)
lido (plural lidos)
- Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
- An outdoor swimming pool.
Noun (2) capitalized: LIDO
LIDO (uncountable)
- Initialism of Lightweight Information Describing Objects.
Noun (3) capitalized: LiDO
LiDO (uncountable)
- Initialism of Large inclination Distant Objects.
Also used as
lido is also the clipping of lidocaine.
Forms of lido
| plural | lidos |
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Origin of lido
After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.
Words formed from lido
- lido deck
Words that rhyme with lido
Questions about lido
- What does lido mean?
- Lido means part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
- What part of speech is lido?
- Lido is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lido?
- Lido is pronounced /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lido?
- The plural of lido is lidos.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lido (page history and authors); LIDO (page history and authors); LiDO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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