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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Venice mean? 

• VENICE (noun)
  The noun VENICE has 1 sense:

1. the provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction

  Familiarity information: VENICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Venezia; Venice

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Venice"):

Grand Canal (the major waterway in Venice, Italy)

Meronyms (members of "Venice"):

Venetian (a resident of Venice)

Holonyms ("Venice" is a part of...):

Venetia; Veneto; Venezia-Euganea (a region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic)

Derivation:

Venetian (of or relating to or characteristic of Venice or its people)

 Context examples 

Last year, for example, I came upon some new waist-coating in the Square of San Marco, at Venice.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jane had not been gone a quarter of an hour, and they had only accomplished some views of St. Mark's Place, Venice, when Frank Churchill entered the room.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

How about flying to Paris? Or in Italy, Venice, Sienna, or Rome? In the US, Carmel-by-the-Sea or Santa Barbara? In Spain, Seville, or in Canada, Victoria or Quebec City?

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They are indeed perfect enough in their exercises, and under very good discipline, wherein I saw no great merit; for how should it be otherwise, where every farmer is under the command of his own landlord, and every citizen under that of the principal men in his own city, chosen after the manner of Venice, by ballot?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)