MADRID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Madrid mean? 

• MADRID (noun)
  The noun MADRID has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum

  Familiarity information: MADRID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADRID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Spain; Madrid; Spanish capital

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Madrid" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

Some six months afterwards the Marquess of Montalva and Signor Rulli, his secretary, were both murdered in their rooms at the Hotel Escurial at Madrid.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Letter from Lord Merrow, report from Sir Charles Hardy, memorandum from Belgrade, note on the Russo-German grain taxes, letter from Madrid, note from Lord Flowers——Good heavens! what is this?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The review was conducted by scientists from different Spanish, European, and American universities, and coordinated by Professor Angel Gil of the University of Granada (UGR) and Professor Rosa M. Ortega of the Complutense University of Madrid.

(Adequate intake of milk and dairy products in different life stages helps prevent chronic diseases, University of Granada)

Every land hath indeed its ways and manners; but I promise you, Edward, that when you are my guest in Toledo or Madrid you shall not yearn in vain for any commoner's daughter on whom you may deign to cast your eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers from the University of Granada, University Hospital La Paz (Madrid) and the University of Texas (USA) have identified a new molecular mechanism underlying the anti-obesity effects of the chronic administration of melatonin, a naturally occurring hormone released by the pineal gland overnight.

(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)

The observations show that iron vapour is abundant in the atmosphere of the hot day side of WASP-76b," adds María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrobiology in Madrid, Spain, and the chair of the ESPRESSO science team.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

Colleagues from the University of Granada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, IMDEA Food Institute, CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health and Northeastern provide the first empirical evidence about the impact of physical activity on mortality in cognitively frail individuals.

(Engaging in physical activity could reduce long-term mortality, University of Granada)

It was a great jest of his, I recollect, to pretend that he couldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention was made of an Alguazill in connexion with the adventures of Gil Blas; and I remember that when Gil Blas met the captain of the robbers in Madrid, this unlucky joker counterfeited such an ague of terror, that he was overheard by Mr. Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Henderson he called himself, but I traced him back, Paris and Rome and Madrid to Barcelona, where his ship came in in ’86.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)