Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A theatrical district.
  • noun A marketplace.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Rialto, an island of Venice where a market was situated.]

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Examples

  • The Transition of Public to Private felicia - rialto, California

    The Transition of Public to Private felicia 2009

  • This I Believe Gift Shop that one person you mean the world to iliana - rialto, California

    that one person you mean the world to iliana 2008

  • Thanks. what side do bloods wear their bandannas katrien steppe sunfire dtshd clog personalized embroidered baptism bib womens moccassins rialto beach de toga judith jack dragonfly brooch flemish art glove box charlie chaplin bosco overcoats ipswich frontier waistcoat kostume kinder capstar donald j pliner hidden camera in dressing room fourstar clothing hyatt regency lexington ddr pionier shoos - 2006-08-16 21: 30: 42

    Home to Chaos barbylon 2004

  • But the old breakwater is no more than a rialto for ancient gossips now; and far beyond it new piers stretch encircling arms of granite round a new harbor, southward of which the lighthouse stands and winks his sleepless golden eye from dusk to dawn.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2010

  • : Iwas only three years old in 1961, I remember the old buses, amazing to see ... rialto Driver: @ bull did that dirty oulone just tell you to go and have a w … … i ...

    Irish Blogs 2010

  • YIKES what was where walmart is now? caldors, i think but before that? pages drug store and others like it that had the counter for soda and coffee ice cream floats = kellys horsey oops ham bugers, sskreke woolworths = 5 / 10c stores ther rialto the strand, rko kieth s theaters, kent jewlery scotts jewlery wow the list goes on and on butthe bus ride was fun!!!

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • YIKES what was where walmart is now? caldors, i think but before that? pages drug store and others like it that had the counter for soda and coffee ice cream floats = kellys horsey oops ham bugers, sskreke woolworths = 5 / 10c stores ther rialto the strand, rko kieth s theaters, kent jewlery scotts jewlery wow the list goes on and on butthe bus ride was fun!!!

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • Information: (970) 962-2120 or www. cityofloveland.org/rialto

    coloradoan.com - Local News 2009

  • This cheesy exercise in rock nostalgia has already been a hit in Los Angeles and Off Broadway, and this transfer to the rialto should prove an equally critic-proof success.

    1. BroadwayStars News Report 2009

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  • The name of the "high bank" (rivoaltus) area in Venice that was first settled in the 9th century. It gave its name to the island group that eventually became the main city of Venice - the Rialto Islands – and then to the city's famous Rialto Bridge.

    July 31, 2008

  • I love Venice....*sigh*

    Ha! I just made a joke -- get it??? Venice - sigh! Har! I slay me.

    July 31, 2008

  • Don'tsigh dontcry.

    July 31, 2008

  • Dontcry, that reminds me of my trip to Venice and a walk through the Bridge of Sighs. While a group of us were standing on the bridge, looking out the stone-barred windows, I unconsciously sighed at the view. Someone in the party muttered, "All right. Who did that??"

    ;-)

    July 31, 2008

  • Ha, method-acting tourists!

    July 31, 2008

  • Funny comedy gags!

    August 1, 2008

  • Hilarity ensues!

    August 1, 2008

  • Thank you! I'm here all week.

    August 1, 2008

  • Try the veal!

    August 1, 2008

  • Tip your waitresses! Tip 'em right over.

    August 1, 2008

  • Fondle a gondola!

    August 1, 2008

  • Take my wife ... please!

    August 1, 2008

  • Geez, and I haven't even told you my Pisa joke yet....

    August 1, 2008

  • *does doubletake*

    C_b, you have a wife? ;-)

    August 2, 2008

  • Let's hope over to Florence next and pinch David's butt!

    August 2, 2008

  • You'll break your fingernails. Trust me.

    August 2, 2008

  • No, silly, pretend pinch! Like holding up the Tower of Pisa!

    August 2, 2008

  • Oh.

    *blushing*

    August 2, 2008

  • Like this, dontcry?

    August 2, 2008

  • Wow. I never realized how lame that looks from other perspectives.

    Heehee.

    August 2, 2008

  • I wrote about it on my blog ("Phenomenology of Pisan tourism"), but it's in Italian. Someday I'm going to translate it.

    August 2, 2008

  • Si! Molto bene!

    August 2, 2008

  • Please do! My Italian is...well, I can't even call it rusty because it isn't that good.

    August 2, 2008

  • Ha, the Pisa pushers are a really clear memory of my afternoons at the Campo. I'll have to read your article Pro.

    August 2, 2008

  • See also the discussion about the Pisa Pushing Pioneers.

    November 30, 2008