Definition for Italy

Italy, proper n. [L. vitulus, calf < Gk italos, ox, cattle.]

Country in Southern Europe; home of the Renaissance; nineteenth-century capital of art, letters, and culture; residence of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert Browning; [fig.] heaven; the promised land; place of rebirth; site of the resurrection; [see ED letters.]

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