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lido

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/(UK)
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/ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/(UK) · /ˈliː.dəʊ/(UK)

Definition of lido

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (British)Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
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noun

  1. (British)Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
  2. (British)An outdoor swimming pool.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable)Clipping of lidocaine
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Lightweight Information Describing Objects.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Large inclination Distant Objects.

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Etymology

After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.

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