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• Merchant of Venice, The
  Merchant of Venice, The

  noun

  a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
• The Merchant of Venice
  The Merchant of Venice

  A comedy by William Shakespeare. The most memorable character is Shylock, a greedy moneylender who demands from the title character “a pound of flesh” (see also pound of flesh) as payment for a debt.

Merchant of Venice, The

American  

noun

1. a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.

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The Merchant of Venice Cultural  

1. A comedy by William Shakespeare. The most memorable character is Shylock, a greedy moneylender who demands from the title character “a pound of flesh” (see also pound of flesh) as payment for a debt.

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Example Sentences

Merchant of Venice, The, 61, 62, 77, 78, 109, 110.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Merchant of Venice The spheres were conceived to be crystalline or glassy fabrics arranged over one another like a nest of bowls reversed.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas