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Ventura

/vɛnˈt(j)ʊɹə/

Ventura proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Ventura

  1. A surname.
  2. A city, the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States. Official name: City of San Buenaventura.
  3. A small city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

Origin of Ventura

From Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish surname, from a medieval form of Bonaventura, Buenaventura, meaning "good fortune."

Words formed from Ventura

Questions about Ventura

What does Ventura mean?
Ventura means a surname.
What part of speech is Ventura?
Ventura is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Ventura?
Ventura is pronounced /vɛnˈt(j)ʊɹə/.

Words near Ventura in the dictionary

  1. ventrums
  2. Ventry
  3. vents
  4. Ventsislav
  5. Ventspils
  6. Ventura
  7. Ventura County
  8. venturable
  9. venture
  10. venture capital
  11. venture capitalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ventura (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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