Venetian Definition

və-nēshən
adjective
Of Venice or its people or culture.
Webster's New World
noun
A person born or living in Venice.
Webster's New World
The variety of Italian spoken in Venice.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Venetian

Noun

Singular:
Venetian
Plural:
venetians

Origin of Venetian

  • Medieval Latin Venetiānus from Venetia , Venice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Venetian Sentence Examples

  • The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.

  • It was an independent republic, generally taking the Guelph side in the 13th century, subject to rulers of the house of Polentani in the 14th, Venetian in the 15th (1441), and papal again in the 16th, - Pope Julius II.

  • The finest glass is made in Tuscany and Venetia; Venetian glass is often colored and of artistic form.

  • Venice with its mainland End of the territories east of the Adige, inclusive of Istria and Dalmatia, went to the Habsburgs, while the Venetian isles of the Adriatic (the lonian Isles) and the Venetian fleet went to strengthen France for that eastern expedition on which Bonaparte had already set his heart.

  • In the Venetian districts the farmers often have small stationary flocks.

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