Umbria
Americannoun
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an ancient district in central and N Italy.
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a region in central Italy. 3,270 sq. mi. (8,470 sq. km).
noun
Example Sentences
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Once part of a 1341 Maestà that adorned a city gate in Assisi, it now hangs at the end of “Giotto and St. Francis” at the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
She once traced a pear to a village in southern Umbria after reading about it in the diary of a musical band director.
From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025
Chess is a gorgeous best-selling author of self-help tomes with breezy titles like “You Got This!,” and she’s just rented the notorious Villa Aestas in Umbria for six weeks.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023
Interviewed on Zoom from his home in Umbria, with follow-up over email, Figes answered questions about the conflict, the politics of repression in Russia and the plight of its young people.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2022
But the thinness of the clay layer clearly suggested that in Umbria, if nowhere else, something rather more abrupt had happened.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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