Sorrento
a seaport in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: resort; cathedral; ancient ruins.
Other words from Sorrento
- Sor·ren·tine [sawr-uhn-teen, suh-ren-teen], /ˈsɔr ənˌtin, səˈrɛn tin/, adjective
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How to use Sorrento in a sentence
Schettino has been in Meta di Sorrento near the Amalfi Coast since being released on house arrest last Tuesday.
Costa Concordia Mess Widens With Salvage Team, Criminal Probe | Barbie Latza Nadeau | January 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile, Schettino is enjoying the relative comfort of house arrest in the confines of his family home in Meta di Sorrento.
Costa Concordia Captain Seen Drinking With Blonde Before Wreck | Barbie Latza Nadeau | January 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIndeed, they take place from Sorrento to Venice with disturbing frequency.
Francesco Schettino, the Costa Concordia’s Daredevil Captain | Barbie Latza Nadeau | January 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMy grandmother is from Naples so I spent every summer of my childhood traveling between Capri, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast.
I have been desolate since you left Rome, and am looking forward eagerly to seeing you next Sunday at Sorrento.
Polly the Pagan | Isabel Anderson
Then came romantic days at Sorrento and Florence and those enchanting dream moments in Venice.
Polly the Pagan | Isabel AndersonSorrento is, in summer, a bathing place for such of the Neapolitan high-life population as are not able to get far away from home.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis MiltounSorrento is the great centre for all the charming region bordering upon the southern shore of the Bay of Naples.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis MiltounExcept for its restricted little business quarter the houses and villas of Sorrento are disposed on the best of garden city plans.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis Miltoun
British Dictionary definitions for Sorrento
/ (səˈrɛntəʊ, Italian sorˈrɛnto) /
a port in SW Italy, in Campania on a mountainous peninsula between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno: a resort since Roman times. Pop: 16 536 (2001)
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