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The place where things happen, legally and literally.
means The specific place — a hall, field, court, or stadium — where an event or legal proceeding actually takes place.
from From French 'venue,' meaning a coming or arrival, itself from Latin 'venire,' to come. It started as a legal term in English for the neighborhood or county where a crime or case was said to have occurred — the place the jury had to 'come from.' Over centuries it drifted from strict legal geography to its modern, looser sense: wherever a concert, wedding, or trial happens to be held.
- legal term
- determines which court actually hears a case
- change of venue
- used when a fair trial is impossible locally
- music industry
- venues range from basements to stadiums, same word
- not a place
- originally meant the act of coming, not location