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 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

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

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker