Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lido

/ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English

Syllables: li-do
IPA: /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.

British usage

noun

An outdoor swimming pool.

British usage

noun

Clipping of lidocaine

Slang; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of Lightweight Information Describing Objects.

Uncountable

noun

Initialism of Large inclination Distant Objects.

Uncountable

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: lido, litus

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

lidos (plural)

Phrases

lido deck

Frequently Paired Words

Lido

Rhymes With

toledo edo guido tuxedo libido fredo escondido garrido partido pulido aledo salcido

Questions

How do you pronounce lido?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/.
What does lido mean?: Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
Where does lido come from?: It is traced to Italian.

How to pronounce lido

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