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Milan

American  
[mi-lan, -lahn] / mɪˈlæn, -ˈlɑn /

noun

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


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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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“You can heal from a lung tumor,” Dr. Lorenzo Spaggiari, a thoracic surgical oncologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, told the New York Times.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Golden rice fields stretch across the Vercelli plain between Milan and Turin, a parcelled landscape broken only by the wood and wetlands created by Cerutti, now home to rare birds and insects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

It was the first time in 20 years as an international that the AC Milan midfielder said he had felt such emotion, describing it as a "catastrophic night".

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Even having Miss Milan, it’s one thing to be a DJ for someone like Doechii, but to also see what she does independently, I really admire that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Occasional excursions to Milan or Paris or London.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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