lido
Meanings
Plural: lidos
Noun
- a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports
- Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
- An outdoor swimming pool.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 5
lido is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordlido is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lido is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
lido is a valid Words With Friends word