Milan

American  

[mi-lan, -lahn] / mɪˈlæn, -ˈlɑn /

noun

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

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Milan British  

/ mɪˈlæn /

noun

1. Italian name: Milano.  Latin name: Mediolanum.  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)

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Milan Cultural  

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

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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, The Last Supper.

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All three main indexes on Wall Street chalked up gains Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and Dow hitting records -- while there were also new peaks for Paris, Milan, Frankfurt and Madrid.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

AC Milan will pay tribute to their former captain ahead of their friendly match again Inter on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Curtis Jones' move to Inter Milan looks to be edging closer with Liverpool open to a sale around the £35m mark.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

A burgeoning defence startup sector "is not something that is going to stop a potential Russian attack", Milan Trajkovic, an analyst at Fitch, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

“And he lived happily in Milan forever after.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway