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Milan

[ mi-lan, -lahn ]

noun

  1. an industrial city in central Lombardy, in northern Italy.


Milan

/ mɪˈlæn /

noun

  1. a city in N Italy, in central Lombardy: Italy's second largest city and chief financial and industrial centre; a centre of the Renaissance under the Visconti and Sforza families. Pop: 1 256 211 (2001) Italian nameMilanomiˈlaːno Latin nameMediolanumˌmeɪdɪəʊˈlɑːnəm


Milan

  1. Capital of the Lombardy region in northern Italy ; since the Middle Ages , an international commercial, financial, and industrial center.


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Notes

Milan is a center for fashion and design.
Its landmarks include the opera house La Scala and the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which houses a famous fresco by Leonardo da Vinci , .

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Example Sentences

There was Milan Hruška, a fiery miner from the North Bohemian coal mines.

This piece is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's iconic, Last Supper, which was painted in the late 15th century in Milan, Italy.

The three were living it up at his Arcore villa outside Milan, made famous by his orgiastic Bunga-Bunga parties.

Ghanaian soccer player Michael Essien, who plays for AC Milan, has been the subject of what borders on fear mongering.

But the Mafia also took its revenge, setting off bombs in Rome, Florence and Milan that killed ten people.

A general rising was planned in Lombardy, but failed, as the Austrians received news of the proposed cession of Milan.

Bonaparte made his public entry into Milan under a triumphal arch.

There were eight passengers besides myself; five Frenchmen, one Belgian, and two citizens of Milan.

The last news of him some four months old, as you have said—reported him at Milan in the service of Spain.

I am cast down by grief at this evil news, and the summons from Court has brought me in all haste from Milan.

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