Italianate

American  

[ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit, ih-tal-yuh-neyt] / ɪˈtæl yəˌneɪt, -nɪt, ɪˈtæl yəˌneɪt /

adjective

1. Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.

2. Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.

3. Architecture. noting or pertaining to a mid-Victorian American style remotely based on Romanesque vernacular residential and castle architecture of the Italian countryside, but sometimes containing Renaissance and Baroque elements.

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verb (used with object)

Italianated, Italianating

1. to Italianize.

Italianate British  

/ ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk, ɪˈtæljənɪt, -ˌneɪt /

adjective

1. Italian in style or character

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Other Word Forms

• Italianately adverb
• Italianation noun

Etymology

Origin of Italianate

From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560–70. See Italian, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Bellinger’s actions have afforded us a rare look at the city’s pre-1871 Italianate architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Her vocal style is Italianate and so, in this production, is her emotive acting.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

Beginning with the Italianate geometries of Rio de Janeiro’s Passeio Público, the country’s first municipal garden, built over a pestilential lagoon between 1779 and ’83, Brazilian parks often mirrored European ones.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

The stately Italianate villa was designed by the Tacoma architectural firm Ferrell and Darmer.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman