Associations to the word «Medina»

Wiktionary

MEDINA, proper noun. A city, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hejira was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.
MEDINA, proper noun. Various other cities of that name; see Wikipedia article on Medina.
MEDINA, noun. The traditional, old or non-European area of a North African town.

Dictionary definition

MEDINA, noun. A city in western Saudi Arabia; site of the tomb of Muhammad; the second most holy city of Islam.
MEDINA, noun. The ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne