Milanese

Borrowed from Italian milanese.

Milanese (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy.

Milanese (plural Milanese or Milaneses)

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy.

   Synonym: (obsolete) Milaner

   • 1863, Tales and Essays, page 38:

     —the waiter was a Milanese, and ardently patriotic—

   • 2002, Robert L. Kendrick, The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 66:

     Finally, the first maestro to have been both a Milanese and a product of the studio, Giovanni Battista Cesati, served from before 1655, publishing a motet book, until he was called to Bologna in summer 1658.

   • 2015 March 27, Cristina Moretti, Milanese Encounters: Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Indeed, in Milan, everyday conversations and practices of relating, attunement, and distancing between inhabitants also partake in wider discourses concerning who is a “Milanese” and what the Milanese share.

• As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Milanese", "writing about Milanese cuisine as a Milanese") is uncommon and often taken as grammatically incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Milanese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Milanese cuisine as a Milanese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only primarily used as an adjective or as a plural noun.

Milanese (plural Milaneses)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Milanese is the 38532^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 574 individuals. Milanese is most common among White (92.86%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Milanese”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 589.

• Niemelas, melanise, seamline

Habitational surname, from milanese (“Milanese”).

Milanese m or f by sense

1. a surname transferred from the place name

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025