ancona
Speech parts
1. ancona - Noun
2. Ancona - Proper noun
Meaning
A city and associated province of Marche, Italy.
A small town in the Shire of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, named after Ancona, Italy.
A locality in Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada.
Ancona (plural Anconas)
A breed of poultry.
In all but colouring, the Ancona is a very similar bird to the Leghorn. It was imported from Italy probably some years before the latter. See ref. p.43.
An altarpiece, especially one of multiple connected pictures
Alternative form of ancon
An unincorporated community in Livingston County, Illinois, United States, named after Ancona, Italy.
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Examples
1990–1995: Juventus "One game stands out in particular, one against Ancona which we won 5–1.
Ancona, "Time and the Erotic" The "Odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the Odes Books 1-3, ranging from the flippant (1.22, 3.28) to the solemn (2.10, 3.2, 3.3).
Ancona and Dubrovnik developed an alternative trade route to the Venetian (Venice- Austria Germany ): starting in Dubrovnik it went on to Ancona, through Florence and ended in Flanders as seen on this map.
An oligarchic republic, Ancona was ruled by six Elders, elected by the three terzieri into which the city was divided: S. Pietro, Porto and Capodimonte.
And now Pat Mora and George Ancona have created a single-pantoum picture book!
A Venetian travelling through Ancona in 1535 recorded that the city was "full of merchants from every nation and mostly Greeks and Turks."