Venice
/ˈvɛnɪs/
Venice 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.
Proper noun
Venice (countable and uncountable, plural Venices)
- 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.
- An. The Duke cannot deny the courſe of law: / for the commoditie that ſtrangers haue / With vs in Venice, if it be denied, / Will much impeach the iuſtice of the State, / Since that the trade and profit of the citty / Conſiſteth of all Nations.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- As I indicated at the outset, for us Shakespeare's Venetian plays lie between the early modern republic described in Chapter 2, and all the subsequent Venices of our experience, education and imagination, […]2010, Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and Venice, →ISBN, page 141
- Synonyms:
- Serenissima, lagoon city
- A metropolitan city of Veneto, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Venice.
- A former province of Veneto.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- Republic of Venice, Most Serene Republic of Venice, Serenissima
- A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
- While Santa Monica has a longstanding prohibition against public camping that includes living in vehicles, the van rental business has been a problem in Venice for years.2023 May 19, Matthew Hall, “Los Angeles Councilwoman targets “vanlord” industry”, in Santa Monica Daily Press, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2026
- A city in Sarasota County, Florida.
- A township in Madison County, Illinois.
- A township in Shiawassee County, Michigan.
- A township in Seneca County, Ohio.
Venice meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Venice in Hindi
- city and metropolitan city in Italy
- वेनिस venis
Venice in Tamil
- city and metropolitan city in Italy
- வெனிசு veṉicu
Venice in Marathi
- city and metropolitan city in Italy
- व्हेनिस vhenis, व्हेनेच्च्या vheneccyā
- former republic
- व्हेनिस vhenis, व्हेनेच्च्या vheneccyā
Venice in Urdu
- city and metropolitan city in Italy
- وینس veenis
More languagesFewer languages
- Venice in Bengali
- বন্দুকিয়া bondukiẏa
- Venice in Telugu
- వెనిస్ venis
- Venice in Nepali
- भेनिस bhenis
- Venice in Tagalog
- Benesya
- Venice in Arabic
- اَلْبُنْدُقِيَّة al-bunduqiyya
- Venice in Malay
- Venis
- Venice in Indonesian
- Venesia
- Venice in Persian
- ونیز veniz
- Venice in Vietnamese
- Vơ-ni-dơ, Uy Nê Tư
Synonyms of Venice
- Serenissima
- lagoon city
- Republic of Venice
- Most Serene Republic of Venice
Forms of Venice
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Origin of Venice
From Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise or Old Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Venetī + -ia (suffix forming place names), a local tribe in antiquity whose own little-attested language is now known as Venetic. Initial scholarly agreement that they were Illyrian was based on arguments since refuted. They worshipped Belenus and were possibly Celtic or heavily influenced by Celtic culture, despite repeatedly supporting the Romans against the Gauls. Compare the identical ethnonym Venetī used for Celts of Armorica (ancient Britanny) from Gaulish Uenetoi (“friendly ones, kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a modified form of *wenyā (“kindred”). Widely but mistakenly derived by the ancient Greeks and Romans from the Eneti of Pamphylia, supposed to have fled to the Adriatic and become the Veneti after supporting the losing side of the Trojan War. As American places, named after the Italian city. Doublet of Venetia and Venezia.
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Questions about Venice
- What does Venice mean?
- Venice means 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.
- What is Venice in Hindi?
- Venice in Hindi is वेनिस (venis). See Venice meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Venice?
- Venice is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Venice?
- Venice is pronounced /ˈvɛnɪs/.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Venice (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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