Other forms: lidos
A lido is an open-air public swimming pool. The local lido, swim at the lido, an art deco lido.
Britain built dozens in the 1930s as public health projects, most in art deco, and most were closed by the 1980s — the survivors are now fiercely defended and several have been restored by campaigns. Many are unheated, which is much of the point for those who use them. Note that the word comes from the Lido at Venice, Europe's first modern beach resort.
1nounlidoAn open-air public swimming pool.
“The lido is about fifty metres and unheated.”
lido is a swimming pool.
The word comes from the Lido di Venezia, a beach island at Venice and Europe's first modern beach resort in 1857. Italian lido means a shore, from Latin litus.
Latin
litus — shore
Italian
lido — beach, shore
English, today
lido
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA