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venue

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈvɛnjuː//

A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.

noun

  1. 1

    A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.

  2. 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.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA bout; a hit; a turn.

  4. 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 poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

  5. 5

    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.

    A care transition often involves a change in venue, which presents a risk of missed follow-up.

  6. 6

    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.

    the goat was entirely concealed by a venue of vultures turned inwards , wings flaring , heads moving up and down , feathers flashing in the sunlight

    As Angelina pulled in and got out of her car, she looked through her binoculars and there appeared to be small venues of vultures everywhere

Etymology

From Middle English venu, from Old French venue, the feminine singular past participle of the verb venir (to come). Doublet of veny.

Forms

plural
venues
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).