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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats