Veronese

¹ American  

[ver-uh-neez, -nees] / ˌvɛr əˈniz, -ˈnis /

adjective

1. of or relating to the city or town of Verona.

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noun

Veronese plural

1. a native or inhabitant of Verona.

Veronese ² American  

[ver-uh-ney-zee, ve-raw-ne-ze] / ˌvɛr əˈneɪ zi, ˌvɛ rɔˈnɛ zɛ /

noun

1. Paolo Paolo Cagliari, 1528–88, Venetian painter.

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Veronese British  

/ veroˈneːse /

noun

1. Paolo (ˈpaːolo), original name Paolo Cagliari or Caliari. 1528–88, Italian painter of the Venetian school. His works include The Marriage at Cana (1563) and The Feast of the Levi (1573)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Veronese
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Veronese

First recorded in 1750–60; Veron(a) + -ese

Example Sentences

"We cannot stop. The lives of workers must be respected and protected, to achieve the only tolerable number -- zero," said UIL confederal secretary Ivana Veronese.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

Veronese is also a co-author on the Alzheimer's & Dementia journal article.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

From the start: The opening calmly built toward what the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has called an aural analogue to an “altarpiece by Veronese or Tintoretto” — immersive, its elements gaining sweep from their interplay.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

He asks Theo to send him some tubes of paint before he leaves Paris: three of zinc white, four of Veronese green, and a tube each of cobalt, ultramarine, emerald green, and orange lead.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman