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Definition of Orlando

1. Noun. A city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World.

Definition of Orlando

1. Proper noun. (Italian male given name) of Italian origin, equivalent to Roland. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname from=Italian dot=) derived from the given name. ¹

3. Proper noun. A city in Florida, see Wikipedia:Orlando, Florida. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orlando

Literary usage of Orlando

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

1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"C. King as Jacques, JB Howard as Orlando, and Miss F. Addison as Celia; ... 1886, with F. Rodney as Orlando and Miss A. Leighton as Rosalind; at the Crystal ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Follow him, without tidings of his way. Orlando reached a rill of crystal vein, On either bank of which a meadow lay; Which, stained with native ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Orlando'» nor« or Roland's horn. Au ivory horn called Olivant, ... Orlando Furioso. Au epic poem in forty-six cantos, by Ariosto (digested Цу Hoole into ..."

4. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"'Among the MSS. at Dulwich College is a large portion of the original part of Orlando as transcribed by the copyist of the theatre for the actor. ..."

5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Orlando thus baffled, yet determined to reach the further side, ... Orlando, who paid little attention to the riches which he ..."

6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"Morgante was like any mountain framed; So if he did this, 'tis no prodigy ; But secretly himself Orlando blamed. Because he was one of his family ..."

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