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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--rialto rialto (re-AL-to) noun 1. A theatre district. 2. An exchange or marketplace. [After Rialto, an island of Venice which was the commercial center of the city. The Rialto bridge was the first bridge on the Grand Canal.] "It was this... that made it some forty or fifty years ago the rialto of the West Indian islands." Daily Chronicle; Sep 23, 1901. This week's theme: words derived from Italian landmarks. X-Bonus No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)

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