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Perugia

American  
[pe-roo-jah, puh-roo-juh, -jee-uh] / pɛˈru dʒɑ, pəˈru dʒə, -dʒi ə /

noun

  1. a city in central Umbria, in central Italy.

  2. Lake of. Trasimeno.


Perugia British  
/ pəˈruːdʒə, peˈruːdʒa /

noun

  1. Ancient name: Perusia.  a city in central Italy, in Umbria: centre of the Umbrian school of painting (15th century); university (1308); Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 149 125 (2001)

  2. another name for (Lake) Trasimene

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Other Word Forms

  • Perugian adjective

Example Sentences

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He would make only one league appearance for Perugia in Serie C, before leaving in late 2023.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Glazier Vincenzo Perugia hid the Renaissance masterpiece in his Paris home for two years before trying to sell the portrait to a Florentine dealer.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

Back in the fall of 2007, Knox was a 20-year-old student from Seattle, studying in Perugia and rooming with a young British woman named Meredith Kercher.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025

Knox was a 20-year-old student with rudimentary Italian who had recently arrived in Perugia, when she endured a long night of questioning in the murder of Meredith Kercher.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024

Perugia would soon leave the glazing firm, but he’d gotten to know the workers at the Louvre and he still visited the museum.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day