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Venue

Definitions: Venue

Venue

Noun

1. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).

2. In law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "venue" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Etymology: Venue \Ven"ue\, noun. [French expression venue coming, arrival, from venir to come, from Latin expression venire; hence, in English, the place whither the jury are summoned to come. See Come, and compare to Venew, Veney.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Venue

DomainDefinitions

Finance

The place where a suit or charge is brought to court, generally the place or jurisdiction where the alleged wrong was committed. (references)

Law

The geographical location in which a case is tried. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Venue

Synonyms: locale (n), locus (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Venue

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Focus

Noun: focus; point of convergence; corradiation; center; gathering place, resort haunt retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot; (store); trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue.

Situation

Place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings; (direction); spot; (limited space).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Venue

English words defined with "venue": To lay a venueVisne. (references)
Specialty definitions using "venue": botwarLAN partysetting-up period, setup time. (references)
Etymologies containing "venue": Venew. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Venue" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (arrival, grew).

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Modern Usage: Venue

DomainUsage

Screenplays

A picnic! First of all, daylight. That's kind of a new venue, Buffywise. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Movie/TV Titles

La Nouvelle venue (1972)

Je suis venue te dire (1996)

Venue India (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Venue

DomainTitle

Books

  • International Broadcasting Convention 1994: Venue Rai Congress and Exhibition Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 16-20 September 1994 (Conference Pu) (reference)

  • International Conference on Road Traffic Signalling, 30 March-1 April 1982, venue, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, U.K (reference)

  • Leisure Venue Catering [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Sports Venue Catering [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Venue 1: False Start (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Dawsons Accomodation Solutions C-w Dawsons Venue Selections (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Venue

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

In a change of venue from peering at the distant universe, the Hubble telescope has taken a ...Credit: NASA.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Venue

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This Consensus Development Conference, the first sponsored by the NIH on dental caries, provided an excellent venue to describe the great success that has been achieved in reducing caries prevalence. (references)

Business

Singapore often serves as a venue for both showcasing and warehousing equipment. (references)

An important venue for sales promotion in the Saudi Arabia is participation in trade shows and exhibitions. (references)

Similarly, local trade shows represent a good venue for foreign companies to demonstrate their equipment and their products. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zambia

The police may advise the organizers that the time or venue is inopportune. (references)

Bangladesh

The Awami League's youth front then announced a rally at the same venue at the same time, leading to a clash between activists. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

For example, in October Bishkek municipal authorities refused to issue permits to allow a congress of major opposition parties to use a public venue to hold its first meeting. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Trade shows represent another venue for entering the Moldovan market. (references)

Croatia

Only three U.S. companies have submitted to arbitration in this venue since its founding. (references)

Ghana

Where the parties do not agree on a venue for arbitration, the investor's choice prevails. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

The venue for a civilian defendant is decided by a military prosecutor. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The prosecution must justify closing the proceedings to the public in such cases, and the Attorney General determines the venue. (references)

Mauritania

The trial was marred by numerous irregularities, including a questionable last-minute change of venue, contradictory prosecution witnesses, and a lack of physical evidence. (references)

Political Economy

Moldova

Another venue for improved business-to-business communication is the Trade and Industry Chamber of Moldova that unites about 800 members. (references)

Sudan

On April 10, government authorities ordered church authorities to move the event to a venue that had insufficient space and was located on the outskirts of Khartoum in an area surrounded by mosques on the grounds that Islamic groups had made threats to disrupt the event. (references)

Travel

Philippines

Dress is according to venue. (references)

Women

Cameroon

In cases of divorce, the husband's wishes determine the custody of children over the age of 6. While a man may be convicted of adultery only if the sexual act takes place in his home, a female may be convicted without respect to venue. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Venue

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Regis Philbin

You know, it's a different kind of fun. It's a different kind of venue. It gives me a chance to see the people who watch during the week, you know.

Rosie O'Donnell

Yeah, well, I like to encourage young performers who wouldn't maybe have a venue without our show, yeah.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Venue

"Venue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.56% of the time. "Venue" is used about 1,112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.56%1,0966,892
Lexical Verb (base form)0.72%8124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.36%4175,879
Noun (proper)0.27%3202,518
Noun (common)0.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,112N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Venue

Expressions using "venue": change of venue To lay a venue. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "venue": same-venue, single-venue, small-venue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Venue

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

venue

108

venue finder

40

club night venue

34

venue finding

33

conference venue

22

wedding venue

20

ben venue

19

venue seating chart

17

change of venue

15

venue search

14

finder free venue

13

finding uk venue

13

training venue

12

party stag venue

11

club night toronto venue

11

conference finder uk venue

9

ben laboratory venue

9

chain reaction venue

9

club venue

9

concert venue

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Venue

Language Translations for "venue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vendtakim (hangout, junction), vendgjarje, vend i zhvillimit të gjyqit, skenë e krimit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مكان الدعوى, ‏مكان (area, locale, locality, locus, place, position, room, seat, site, space, spot), ‏موقع اللقاء, ‏موقع الجريمة, ‏مسرح الحوادث. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сборище (rendezvous, repair). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

地点 (location). (various references)

   

Czech

  

místo konání soudního řízení, místo (accommodation, appointment, instead of, job, locus, part, place, post, room, situation, space, spot, stand, standing). (various references)

   

Danish

  

mødested (conference site, congress venue), lokalitet (conference site, congress venue, site, station). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

plaats(van samenkomst) (conference site, congress venue). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

محل وقوع جرم یادعوی(حق.), محل دادرسی , مدن , حمله (Access, Assault, Attack, Charge, Inroad, Offense, Offensive, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught, Rush, Sally, Spell), حوزه صلاحیت دادگاه , غاز (Goose). (various references)

   

French

  

lieu du procès, lieu de rendez-vous, lieu de la réunion, lieu. (various references)

   

German

  

Gerichtsstand. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βενιού, τόποσ συναντήσεωσ, τόποσ εγκλήματοσ, τόποσ δίκησ εγκλήματοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מקום מפ'ש, מקום "משפט. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

találkozóhely (meeting point, rendezvous, rvz, tryst, trysting-place). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sede (address, head office, headquarters, locus, office, seat), luogo designato, giurisdizione (jurisdiction). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

개최지. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ynnyd vingey, ynnyd loght, laaragh (building plot, centre, centric, centrical, site, stage), boayl chaglym. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enuevay

   

Portuguese

  

ponto de encontro, local de reunião, local de julgamento, foro (due, forward, judgement, law book, rent, royalty, tax, tribunal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

loc de judecatã, loc de întâlnire (haunt, meet, rendezvous, resort). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

судебный округ, место сбора (meet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mesto suđenja, mesto izvršenja krivičnog dela, mesto iz kojeg je uzeta porota. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lugar del proceso, lugar de encuentro (café). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spelplats, mötesplats (by-pass lane, close, lay-by, passing bay, passing place, rendezvous, tryst, turn-out), jurisdiktionsort. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarış alanı (gymkhana, racing circuit), olay yeri (locale, scene, scene of accident, scene of crime, setting, spot), mahkeme yeri, cinayet mahalli, buluşma yeri (haunt, meeting place, place of resort, rendezvous, tryst, trysting place). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

судова округа, місце зустрічі (tryst). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nơi hẹn gặp. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Venue

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

venire. (various references)

Old French900-1400

venue. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Venue

Derivations

Words beginning with "venue": venues. (additional references)

Words ending with "venue": avenue, parvenue, revenue. (additional references)

Words containing "venue": avenues, parvenues, revenued, revenuer, revenuers, revenues. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Venue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enue, fenue, genue, menue, renue, vanke, vanu, Vanua, vauna, veau, Vence, vende, vene, venee, veneen, venez, venine, venise, venle, veno, venow, vente, ventu, ventue, venu, venuer, venuey, venum, venus, venuw, veque, veu, veue, veuse, veyne, vinue, Vnup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Venue"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "venue" (pronounced ve"nyuw)
4-e" n y uwingenue, menu.
3-n y uwcontinue, discontinue.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Venue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-u-v"

-1 letter: even, neve.

-2 letters: eve, nee, vee.

-3 letters: en, ne, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-u-v"
 

+1 letter: avenue, uneven, vendue, venues, venule.

 

+2 letters: avenues, nervule, nervure, revenue, subvene, unlevel, unnerve, unreeve, unvexed, unweave, veinule, vendues, venture, venules.

 

+3 letters: duvetine, duvetyne, eventful, eventual, juvenile, maneuver, nervules, nervures, nouvelle, parvenue, revenual, revenued, revenuer, revenues, subvened, subvenes, unenvied, unevaded, unevener, unevenly, universe, unlevels, unlevied, unnerved, unnerves, unreeved, unreeves, unserved, unveiled, unveined, unversed, unweaves, veinules, veinulet, vendeuse, vengeful, ventured, venturer, ventures, venulose, verecund.

 

+4 letters: adventure, duvetines, duvetynes, endeavour, eventuate, gerundive, juveniles, maneuvers, manoeuvre, parvenues, revenuers, suaveness, supervene, unavenged, unaverage, unbeloved, uncovered, undeceive, unevenest, unevolved, universes, unleveled, unraveled, unreeving, unreserve, unrevised, vagueness, veinulets, vendeuses, venturers, virulence, volunteer.

 

+5 letters: adventured, adventurer, adventures, aventurine, devoutness, divulgence, eigenvalue, endeavours, equivalent, eventfully, eventually, eventuated, eventuates, everduring, evonymuses, gerundives, interfluve, maneuvered, maneuverer, manoeuvred, manoeuvres, mavourneen, overburden, overburned, overfunded, overhunted, overinsure, overturned, purveyance, rejuvenate, rendezvous, revengeful, supernovae, supervened, supervenes, suspensive, turnverein, unachieved, unbeliever, uncoercive, uncreative, undeceived, undeceives, undercover, undervalue, undeserved, unenviable, unevenness, uneventful, unleavened, unleveling, unlevelled, unlovelier, unobserved, unravelled, unrelieved, unreserved, unreserves, unresolved, unrevealed, unreviewed, untraveled, unverified, vengefully, virulences, volunteers, vulnerable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Venue


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 6E 75 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .    -.    ..-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01101110 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#110 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 006E 0075 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5671808771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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