Other forms: venues
A venue is the place where an event is held. Book a venue, a change of venue, the venue holds two hundred.
In law a change of venue moves a trial to another place, usually because a fair jury cannot be found where the crime happened. In ordinary use it covers halls, clubs and stadiums alike, and it says nothing about what kind of building it is.
1nounvenueThe place where an event is held.
“The concert venue holds five thousand people and was sold out within hours.”
venue is a place.
Old French venue means a coming, from venir, to come, from Latin venire. It first meant an arrival.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷem-
Old French
venue
Middle English
venu
English, today
venue
From Middle English venu, from Old French venue, the feminine singular past participle of the verb venir (to come). a doublet of veny.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA