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.

Example Sentences

“As the people say,” Hughes joked in Milan, “I’m usually seeing ghosts.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Instead of Paris, we’re now whisked to cameo-studded shindigs in the Hamptons and Milan, including a dinner party underneath Da Vinci’s mural of “The Last Supper.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

AC Milan manager Massimiliano Allegri is another option being seriously considered.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

People that know Serie A well have mentioned that 40-year-old Croatia midfielder Luka Modric, who left the Bernabeu to join Milan last summer, could come back with him.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

I surveyed the railway schedule and became aware that I was one wrong ticket from Vienna, Milan, or some Alpine village that no one I knew had ever heard of.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates