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Definition of Medellin
1. Noun. City in western Colombia; important coffee center.
Definition of Medellin
1. Proper noun. The second largest city of Colombia, in the department of Antioquia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medellin
Literary usage of Medellin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Generation Under Fire: Children and Violence in Colombia by Robin Kirk, Human Rights Watch/Americas (1994)
"In 1993, the year Colombian police killed Medellin Cartel leader Pablo Escobar,
this city of two million had the highest per capita murder rate in Colombia ..."
2. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1890)
"Going out from Medellin you may, in from five to ten hours ride, ... There are
extensive mines of silver and gold, and Medellin holds in Antioquia a place ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1906)
"He took in hand no less a scheme than to surround the French in the open plain
near Medellin, and advanced in a line four miles long and only four men deep. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As the civil districts are now constituted, the Department of Antioquia embraces
an area of 11517 square miles with a population of 160000; that of Medellin ..."
5. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... army—Battle of Medellin—Spaniards totally defeated—Victor ordered, by the
king, to invade Portugal—Openi a secret ..."
6. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... army—Battle of Medellin—Spaniards totally defeated—Victor ordered, by the
king, to invade Portugal—Opens a secret communication with some persons in ..."
7. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to by Archibald Alison (1870)
"The bridge of Medellin was not seriously contested by the Spaniards, who were
drawn up in the form of a half-moon, in a line about a league in breadth, ..."
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