venue

[ven-yoo]

noun

1. Law.

   1. the place of a crime or cause of action.

   2. the county or place where the jury is gathered and the cause tried.

   3. the designation, in the pleading, of the jurisdiction where a trial will be held.

   4. the statement naming the place and person before whom an affidavit was sworn.

2. the scene or locale of any action or event.

3. the position taken by a person engaged in argument or debate; ground.

venue

/ ˈvɛnjuː /

noun

1. law

   1. the place in which a cause of action arises

   2. the place fixed for the trial of a cause

   3. the locality from which the jurors must be summoned to try a particular cause

2. a meeting place

3. any place where an organized gathering, such as a rock concert or public meeting, is held

4. a position in an argument

Word History and Origins

Origin of venue¹

1300–50; Middle English venue an attack < Middle French: literally, a coming, Old French, feminine past participle of venir to come < Vulgar Latin *venūta, for Latin venta, equivalent to ven ( īre ) to come + -ta feminine past participle suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of venue¹

C14: from Old French, from venir to come, from Latin venīre

Example Sentences

The tri-series will commence with hosts Pakistan taking on Zimbabwe in Rawalpindi while the second fixture will also be played at the same venue two days later as Sri Lanka take on Zimbabwe.

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But it is props not participants that bosses at one of the show's host venues are keen to get out of the building to raise funds for what is one of Wales' most at-risk structures.

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London's Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japanese temple roof suspended above the ring.

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Within hours of Budapest being named as a venue, Orban was on the phone to Putin and declared on his Facebook page: "Preparations are in full swing!"

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A leading venue for these direct-to-consumer pitches: the massive online reach of Amazon.com, where hundreds of these products are hawked.

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Related Words

• locale 
• place 
• setting 
• site