Word.ws English Dictionary

11-M

11-M proper noun: the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

Proper noun

11-M

  1. (metonymically) The 2004 Madrid train bombings.
    • If the events took place on March 11 (like the public information phone number 3-1-1), perhaps the metonym wouldn’t be “3/11,” since it isn’t similarly visceral. (It’s worth noting that the Madrid train bombings, which took place on March 11, are known in Spain as “11-M” due to the country’s use of...2015 January 16, Rick Paulas, “The Linguistics of Tragedy”, in Pacific Standard, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025

Origin of 11-M

Borrowed from Spanish 11-M, an abbreviation of 11 March.

Questions about 11-M

What does 11-M mean?
11-M means the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
What part of speech is 11-M?
11-M is a proper noun.

Words near 11-M in the dictionary

  1. 11 pluses
  2. 11+
  3. 11-deoxycorticosterone
  4. 11-gon
  5. 11-gons
  6. 11-M
  7. 11-plus examination
  8. 11-plus examinations
  9. 110
  10. 110 proof
  11. 110%

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 11-M (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “11-M.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/11-m. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.