Venetian
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Venice or its people; “Venetian glass”; “Venetian canals”
Venetian
(noun) a resident of Venice
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Venetian (not comparable)
Of, from, or relating to Venice, Italian city.
Venetian (plural Venetians)
An inhabitant or a resident of Venice and the surrounding area.
(colloquial) A Venetian blind.
(obsolete, in the plural) galligaskins
Venetian
The Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy. It should not be confused with Venetic, an extinct Indo-European Italic language once spoken in the same area.
The form of this language spoken in Venice.
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Source: Wiktionary
Ve*ne"tian, a. Etym: [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.
– Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
– Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
– Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.
– Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.
– Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
– Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
– Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
– Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.
Ve*ne"tian, n.
Definition: A native or inhabitant of Venice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
