Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scene or setting in which something takes place; a locale.
- noun A place for large gatherings, as a sports stadium.
- noun The court where a lawsuit may or should be tried, usually because the cause of action arose in that locality.
- noun The locality from which a jury may be drawn.
- noun The locality where a crime is committed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coming.
- noun In old fencing, a hit; attack; bout; a match or bout in cudgel-play; especially, a contest of regulated length, or of a fixed number of thrusts or blows; hence (because the bout was often ended when one thrust was successful), a thrust; a lunge.
- noun In law: The place or neighborhood of a crime or cause of action; in modern times, the county or corresponding division within which in consequence the jury must be gathered and the cause tried, The statement, usually at the top or in the margin, of an indictment or declaration of complaint, indicating the county for trial, A similar statement in an affidavit indicating the place where it was taken and the oath was administered
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) 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.
- noun rare A bout; a hit; a turn. See
Venew . - noun (Law) to allege a place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
place , especially the one where a given event is to happen. - noun law 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. - noun obsolete A
bout ; ahit ; aturn . Seevenew . - noun sports Sport venue: a
stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
- noun in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I said, 'I don't think the venue is the most important thing here.'
Departing 'Monk' crafted USA Network into cable powerhouse 2009
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So we're wandering around outside the YMCA because the venue is an all ages club that sets up in the Y on Saturday nights.
Archive 2008-03-01 Zenmomma 2008
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For an informal gathering, a quick e-mail or instant message ensuring the venue is accessible may suffice.
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Will you stay at the Olympic village if your venue is an hour away?
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If the doctor violated professional ethics, the venue is the training program director, the hospital medical staff director or the state board of medicine, any or all of them would have been better than calling some reporter.
Genital Photos, HIPAA and the Media aka TBTAM 2007
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There will be three blocks of short brickfilms and the venue is a 300 seat theater.
Boing Boing 2007
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There are usually many small-name acts on the bill; the venue is usually a high school gymnasium, roller skating rink, or an empty warehouse.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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There are usually many small-name acts on the bill; the venue is usually a high school gymnasium, roller skating rink, or an empty warehouse.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Early 80's Music Flyers 2006
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And even this kind of venue is limited, as one can only hurl a watermellon so far.
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And when that doesn’t work, I grab my Neo and write outside, or at the library – sometimes a change in venue is best for me.
ruzuzu commented on the word venue
"In old fencing, a hit; attack; bout; a match or bout in cudgel-play; especially, a contest of regulated length, or of a fixed number of thrusts or blows; hence (because the bout was often ended when one thrust was successful), a thrust; a lunge." --CD&C
May 18, 2012