Medellín

[ me-the-yeen ]

noun

1. a city in W Colombia.

Medellín

/ meðeˈʎin /

noun

1. a city in W Colombia, at an altitude of 1554 m (5100 ft): the second largest city in the country, with three universities; important coffee centre, with large textile mills; dominated by drug cartels in recent years. Pop: 3 236 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Pablo Escobar’s native Medellín uses it as a way to engage marginalized youth.

From Ozy

Twenty years after Medellín began to take this innovative approach, new technology is equipping us with an even more powerful set of tools.

From MIT Technology Review

In the early 2000s, the city of Medellín, Colombia, started a reckoning process that would inspire the world.

From MIT Technology Review

The Medellín native benefited from going back to her roots, beginning her research with a rural Colombia clan where nearly half the population develops the brain disorder by their mid-40s.

From Ozy

Thousands of other Colombians gathered in front of army installations in Medellín, Popayán and other cities to express their outrage over Giraldo’s death.

From Washington Blade

I was roasted by the sun in Cartagena and walked the once deadly streets of Medellin in the rain.

From The Daily Beast

There, Blanco reportedly was trying to go clean, plowing her earnings into commerce, including a lingerie shop in Medellin.

From The Daily Beast

Ladewig told the Daily Beast that he met Medellin while hiking with Campos-Martinez in Griffith Park.

From The Daily Beast

The tipster reportedly received email messages stating that: “Medellin was in Mexico and had not returned.”

From The Daily Beast

Hayes also said that Medellin was not killed by a drug cartel.

From The Daily Beast

To hold the district he founded the towns of Medellin and Espritu Santo.

From Project Gutenberg

Here he assumed an incognito, and proceeded on foot fifteen miles to Medellin.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a native of Medellin, a hidalgo, and his father had been alcalde of a fortress.

From Project Gutenberg

Here the ground is more open and more elevated, sloping up from the flats by the river till it culminates in the hill of Medellin.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaving at eight o'clock in the morning we were at Medellin in an hour.

From Project Gutenberg