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Madrid

Madrid

90 1.0
The capital city of Spain in the centre of the country known for famous art museums
  • proper noun
  • /məˈdrɪd/
: Madrid
  • Hoards of young people from Barcelona and Madrid pour into Valencia for Fallas.
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Prado Museum in Madrid
  • Museum in Madrid

You are a graduate of Madrid's Escuela de Artes.

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Examples

  • Teresa Mendoza's just bought a ticket to Madrid through Mexico City.

  • They'd stay at the Ritz in Madrid and linger at the Prado across the street.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I just wonder when Real Madrid are gonna get started.

  • Our last international flight from Madrid to the US, we were on the oldest plane in the world.

  • Last summer I, uh, got to visit my uncle and his boyfriend in Madrid.

  • How far West is Madrid from GMT?

  • Barcelona, the second largest Spanish city, has always vied with Madrid in population, power, and influence.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Without sending word ahead, he went straight to Madrid and arrived feeling strangely down and melancholy.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • You are a graduate of Madrid's Escuela de Artes.

  • I grew up in Madrid and only moved to the U.S. when I was 16.

Surface Forms

Madrid main

Etymology

Madrid likely comes from an old name meaning 'place of water', from Arabic Mayrit and the root mayy 'water', and from an earlier Latin matrice meaning 'mother' or 'source'. So think of Madrid as the 'mother' or 'source' of water, a city that grew by the river and that is why the name fits today.