palazzo

American  

[puh-laht-soh, pah-laht-tsaw] / pəˈlɑt soʊ, pɑˈlɑt tsɔ /

noun

plural

palazzi

1. an impressive public building or private residence; palace.

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Etymology

Origin of palazzo

< Italian: literally, palace

Example Sentences

He wrote that the actor Jack Nicholson once mistakenly called him one of the “Getty boys” at a party in a 16th-century palazzo in Venice where guests arrived via gondola.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

The director of the Colosseum Archeological Park, which includes the Palatine Hill, in a written description of the restored palazzo, dubbed it “the power palace par excellence.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Workers dripped with sweat as they balanced on metal ladders outside the palazzo.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

But what happens in that palazzo will make her ageless.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day