dolce vita
/ˌdɒltʃeɪ ˈviːtə
/noun (usually la dolce vita)
A life of heedless pleasure and luxury: he was young, beautiful, and living la dolce vita...
- There's no doubt that Vancouver is a great city: a West Coast exponent of la dolce vita, where lifestyle is a metropolitan obsession.
- Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Med, lemon trees and a large dollop of la dolce vita straight into your living room.
- A mutual love for show business, good books, pretty women and la dolce vita put us on the same wavelength immediately.
Origin
Italian, literally 'sweet life'.
Rhymes
- 'proach
- proact
- proaction
- proactivator
- proactive
- proactive inhibition
- proactive interference
- proactively
- proactivity
- proaeresis
- proairesis
- proal
- pro-am
- proamnion
- proamniotic
- proamphibian
- pro-ana
- pro-anaphoral
- pro-and-con
- pro-and-conning
- pro-angiosperm
- proanthocyanidin
- pro aris et focis
- proatlas
- pro-attitude