Etruria

[ ih-troor-ee-uh ]

/ ɪˈtrʊər i ə /

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noun

an ancient country located between the Arno and Tiber rivers, roughly corresponding to modern Tuscany in W Italy.

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Words nearby Etruria

etorphine, étouffée, Etr., étrier, etrog, Etruria, Etruscan, Etruscan ware, Etruscology, ETS, et seq.

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How to use Etruria in a sentence

Rome, during these days, was contending on a position of near equality with the neighboring cities of Latium and Etruria.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States|James Hamilton Lewis
While traveling to and from this province he was forcibly impressed by the industrial and economic conditions in Etruria.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States|James Hamilton Lewis
It was Etruria that produced not only Dante, but also a galaxy of great men such as no other part of Europe has presented.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley
Fanny wants to know “what you are gone for,” and endeavors to pronounce Etruria.
Mary Wollstonecraft|Elizabeth Robins Pennell

There lack'd not men of prowess, nor men of lordly race; For all Etruria's noblest were round the fatal place.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886|Ministry of Education

British Dictionary definitions for Etruria

Etruria

/ (ɪˈtrʊərɪə) /

noun

an ancient country of central Italy, between the Rivers Arno and Tiber, roughly corresponding to present-day Tuscany and part of Umbria

a factory established in Staffordshire by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769

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