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

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

Inflected Forms

noun

• Veronese
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Veronese

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

Example Sentences

"I've already fallen about 10 times for sure," said Italian student Francesca Veronese, who told AFP she was considering buying crampons because navigating Berlin footpaths had become "very, very dangerous".

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

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

Lebrun would surely have known the monstrous tool from countless Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings of martyred Saint Catherine of Alexandria — by Raphael, Caravaggio, Veronese, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardo Strozzi and dozens more.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

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