medina
IPA: mʌdˈaɪnʌ
Root Word: Medina
noun
- The capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia; a city, holy to Islam, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hejira was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.
- A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
- A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- A community in Zorra Township, Ontario, Canada.
- A municipality and town in the Cundinamarca department, Colombia.
- A municipal district of San Cristóbal province, Dominican Republic.
- A river, the River Medina, flowing south to north through the centre of the Isle of Wight, England.
- A former borough of the Isle of Wight, England.
- A village in Tolna County, Hungary.
- A rural locality in Hurunui district, Canterbury, New Zealand; a short river named the Medina River is nearby.
- A municipality of Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas.
- A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
- A village in Orleans County, New York.
- A tiny city in Stutsman County, North Dakota.
- A city, the county seat of Medina County, Ohio, named for the city in Saudi Arabia.
- A small city in Gibson County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Bandera County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Zapata County, Texas.
- A river, the Medina River, in south central Texas, which gives its name to Medina County.
- A small city in King County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
- A town in Dane County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Dale, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
- A surname from Spanish.
- A female given name transferred from the surname
- The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town.
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Examples of "medina" in Sentences
- At night, all of the medina is a rough neighborhood.
- The medina was the original settlement at Casablanca.
- We entered the medina, which is quite large, in search of Casa Perlita or Perlida or whatever it was.
- It also provided a fine view of the medina from the rooftop, where you felt a bit like a bee in a large honeycomb.
- After visiting the mosque I walk back to my hotel through the medina, which is far grittier and grungier than those of Fes and Marrakech.
- The city was a lot larger than we expected and had the old quarter near the port which was commonly called medina in Arabic and a newer modern part of town.
- This system brings Tetouan's underground streams to the city's historic nucleus (known as the medina) via a gravity-driven network of interlocking clay pipes.
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