venue

Noun

venue (plural venues)

1. A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.
2. A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.
   • The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
3. (obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn.

   Synonyms:

   venew

4. A stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
   • With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with...2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph
5. (broadly) The place where something happens; especially, one formally recognized as an appropriate one for that occurrence.
   • Near-synonym: setting
   • The metalworking forum is not the venue for this discussion about politics.

   Synonyms:

   setting

6. (collective) A group of vultures.
   • In as little as twenty minutes, a venue of vultures can rip apart and dispose of an eight-hundred-pound cow carcass.2017, Jim Robbins, The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future, Random House Publishing Group, page 127
   • the goat was entirely concealed by a venue of vultures turned inwards , wings flaring , heads moving up and down , feathers flashing in the sunlight1842, The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 87, number 2, page 36