Venezuela

Borrowed from Spanish Venezuela, from Italian Veneziola, diminutive of Venezia (“Venice”), after the stilt houses reminiscent of Venetian architecture.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌvɛn.ɪˈzweɪ.lə/, /ˌvɛn.ɛzˈweɪ.lə/, /ˌvɛn.əˈzweɪ.lə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlə

Venezuela

2. A country in South America. Official name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Capital and largest city: Caracas.
   • 2025 January 22, Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez, “Congress passes immigrant detention bill in first legislative win for Trump”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The legislation is named after Laken Riley, a 22-year old Georgia student who was killed last year while out for a run. An undocumented migrant from Venezuela was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in the case that reignited a national debate over immigration and crime.

• Venezuelan

Venezuela

1. definite nominative singular of Venezuelë

• IPA^(key): /beneˈθwela/ [be.neˈθwe.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: Ve‧ne‧zue‧la

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• venezolanu

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Borrowed from Spanish Venezuela.

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛnɛzuɛla]

Venezuela f (relational adjective venezuelský, demonym Venezuelan or Venezuelec)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• “Venezuela”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Venezuela”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Venezuela”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Borrowed from Spanish Venezuela, from Italian Veneziola.

• IPA^(key): /ˌveː.nə.zyˈeː.laː/, /ˌveː.neː.zyˈeː.laː/

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• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la
• Rhymes: -eːlaː

Venezuela n

1. Venezuela (a country in South America) [from 19th c.]
2. (historical) Venezuela (South American province of the Spanish Empire) [from 18th c.]

• Venezuelaan

From Spanish Venezuela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋenetsuelɑ/, [ˈʋe̞ne̞tˌs̠ue̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uelɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): Ve‧ne‧zue‧la

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• Vénézuéla

• IPA^(key): /ve.ne.zɥe.la/

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Venezuela m

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• vénézuélien
• Vénézuélien/Vénézuélienne
• Venise

From Spanish Venezuela, from Old Spanish Veneçuela (diminutive of Venecia (“Venice”)).

• IPA^(key): /veneˈtsu̯eːla/, [ˌveː.ne.t͡suˈ(ʔ)eː.la], [ˌvɛ-], [-nə-], (seldom) [-ˈt͡sʋeː.la]

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• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la

Venezuela n (proper noun, genitive Venezuelas or (optionally with an article) Venezuela)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America; official name: Bolivarische Republik Venezuela)

• Venezolaner
• venezolanisch

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)
   • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎^[2]:

     Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”

     American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to speak about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛnɛzuɛlɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America; official name: Venezuelai Bolivári Köztársaság)

• venezuelai

• IPA^(key): /ve.net.t͡suˈɛ.la/, /ve.ned.d͡zuˈɛ.la/, /ve.netˈt͡swɛ.la/, /ve.nedˈd͡zwɛ.la/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧è‧la, Ve‧ne‧zuè‧la

Venezuela m

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• Venezia
• venezolano
• venezuelano

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• venezuelaner
• venezuelansk

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• venezuelan, venezuelanar
• venezuelansk

• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• venezuelano

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Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• IPA^(key): [ˈveɲezuela]

Venezuela f (genitive singular Venezuely, declension pattern of žena)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• “Venezuela”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛnɛzuɛ̀ːla/

Venezuéla f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Venezuéla
genitive	Venezuéle
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Venezuéla
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Venezuéle
dative (dajȃlnik)	Venezuéli
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Venezuélo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Venezuéli
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Venezuélo

• Venezuélec / Venezuélka
• venezuélski

• “Venezuela”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish Veneçuela (from Venecia (“Venice”) + -uela).

• IPA^(key): /beneˈθwela/ [be.neˈθwe.la] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /beneˈswela/ [be.neˈswe.la] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Peru); “Venezuela; capital: Caracas”:

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: Ve‧ne‧zue‧la

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)
   • 2024 October 20, EFE, “Nueva caravana migrante con miles de personas sale de la frontera sur de México hacia Estados Unidos”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     Desde hace casi dos meses, García salió de Venezuela tras el conflicto causado por las elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio pasado, y compartió que su viaje ha consistido en caminar solo y transportarse en autobús por días, y esta madrugada, se unió al contingente desde la puerta sur.

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2. a town in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba

• “Venezuela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Venezuela.

• IPA^(key): /fenes(y)wˈei̯la/, [fɪ̞nɪ̞s(y)wˈɪ̞i̯la̠], [fe̝ne̝s(y)wˈe̝i̯lɑ̟]

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

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Venezuela n (genitive Venezuelas)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• venezuelan
• venezuelansk
• venezuelanska

• Venezuela in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

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Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

• Venezuelalı

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)