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Milan

Milan

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A large city in northern Italy known for fashion, design, and business
  • proper noun
  • /mɪˈlæn/
: Milán
  • The annual fashion week in Milan attracts designers from all over the world.
  • Milan, Italy
  • the city of Milan
  • an Italian from Milan

Going up and down to from Milan to Salou to wherever.

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Examples

  • When the train had left Milan, he'd considered himself lucky to have the compartment to himself.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Update The Milan Cathedral is just through there.

  • Oh OK. Up near Milan, but four hours away. OK,

  • We should go, you got to fly to Milan tomorrow.

  • And most of that time, I was in Milan.

  • I'd been working as a model in Milan, and I'd been home only a couple of days.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I've spent so much of my working life in Northern Italy, in Milan and the area around Milan.

  • I had to go to Milan, find where the Canadian consulate was located.

  • "I shall be so happy to have my first glimpse of Milan," Irene said.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Anderson Cooper was in Milan at a Lady Gaga concert.

    Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Milan: The name Milan comes from the old Latin Mediolanum, made of medi- 'middle' and -lanum 'plain'. So being in the 'middle' of the flat land helped Milan become a busy center for trade, industry and fashion.