venue

plural venues

1. A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.
2. lawA neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.

   The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made.

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

3. obsoleteA bout; a hit; a turn.

   Synonyms: venew

4. hobbiesA stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.

   1 more example

   With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

   2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph

5. broadlyThe place where something happens; especially, one formally recognized as an appropriate one for that occurrence.

   Near-synonym: setting

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   The metalworking forum is not the venue for this discussion about politics.

   A care transition often involves a change in venue, which presents a risk of missed follow-up.

   Synonyms: setting

6. collectiveA group of vultures.

   In as little as twenty minutes, a venue of vultures can rip apart and dispose of an eight-hundred-pound cow carcass.

   2017, Jim Robbins, The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future, Random House Publishing Group, page 127

   2 more examples

   the goat was entirely concealed by a venue of vultures turned inwards , wings flaring , heads moving up and down , feathers flashing in the sunlight

   1842, The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 87, number 2, page 36

   As Angelina pulled in and got out of her car, she looked through her binoculars and there appeared to be small venues of vultures everywhere

   2011, Latonia Griswold, Voltur, page 25