Definition of Brindisi

1. Noun. A port city in southeastern Apulia in Italy; a center for the Crusades in the Middle Ages.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Italia, Italian Republic, Italy

Definition of Brindisi

1. Proper noun. Province of Apulia, Italy. ¹

2. Proper noun. Town, port and capital of Brindisi. ¹

3. Proper noun. ''(common noun)'' A drinking song. ¹

4. Noun. A drinking song in which each person is toasted ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brindisi

1. a toast [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brindisi

Bright
Bright's disease
Brigid
Brigit
Brigit Nilsson
Brigitte Bardot
Brignac
Brignacs
Brihaspati
Brill
Brill's disease
Brill-Symmers disease
Brill-Zinsser disease
Brimacombe fragment
Brindisi
Brinell
Brinell hardness number
Brinell number
Brinjaree
Brinjarees
Brinton
Brioschi
Briquet
Briquet's ataxia
Briquet's disease
Briquet's syndrome
Bris
Brisbane
Brisbane quandong

Literary usage of Brindisi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"brindisi, called by the Romans Brundusium or Brundisium, by the Greeks ... In 245 в. с. the Romans captured brindisi without striking a blow and established ..."

2. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"Ancona is 347 M. distant from brindisi, to which an express train runs daily in 12 ... (from Bologna to brindisi 14!/4 hrs.), in connection with the English ..."

3. Southern Italy and Sicily: With Excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"(from Bologna to brindisi 182/3 hrs.), in connection with the English mail to India, carrying firat-clase passengers to brindisi only. ..."

4. Italy : Handbook for Travellers: Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily, with by Baedeker, Karl, firm, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1896)
"Ancona is 347 M. distant from brindisi, to which an express train runs daily in 151/* hrs. in correspondence with the quick trains from Milan and Bologna ..."

5. The Shores of the Adriatic, the Italian Side: An Architectural and by Frederick Hamilton Jackson (1906)
"... side of the Adriatic communication was continued to Thessalonica from Durazzo by the Via Egnatia. The end (or commencement) of the Via Appia at brindisi ..."

6. Guide to the Eastern Mediterranean: Including Greece and the Greek Islands by inc. Macmillan, firm publishers London, Macmillan & Co, Macmillan, firm, publishers, London (1904)
"brindisi has been described as "a mass of Roman remains " ... Several houses in brindisi have rich and beautiful old balconies, belonging to different ..."

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