venue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The place where an event such as a concert, meeting, or game is held.

   The stadium is a popular venue for major concerts.

2. 2
   noun

   In law, the place or area where a trial is held.

   The lawyers argued over the best venue for the trial.

Simplified etymology

Venue belongs to the word family derived from Latin venire, “to come.” It first denoted an attack, then became a legal term for the county or district where a case was to be heard; its familiar sense of a place for entertainment dates only from the 1960s.

From Middle English venu, from Old French venue, the feminine singular past participle of the verb venir (to come). Doublet of veny.

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