Ra·ma·di (r?-mä?d?) A city of central Iraq on the Euphrates River west of Fallujah. The capital of Al Anbar, Ramadi was a focus of the insurgency against US forces in the Iraq War.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.