Meaning of Verona | Babel Free
vɪˈɹəʊnəDefinitions
- A city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy.
- A province of Veneto, in northern Italy.
- A village in Illinois.
- A census-designated place in Kentucky.
- A city in Mississippi.
- A city and town in Missouri.
- A township in New Jersey.
- A town in New York.
- A city and village in North Dakota.
- A village in Ohio.
- A borough of Pennsylvania.
- A city and town in Wisconsin.
- A locality in the Bega Valley council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A habitational surname from Italian.
- A female given name.
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Examples
“Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”
“...it was nearly the middle of August before he went out to meet Harriet in the Tirol. He found his sister in a dense cloud five thousand feet above the sea, chilled to the bone, overfed, bored, and not at all unwilling to be fetched away. … They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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