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medina.

Noun
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The old urban quarter of a town in parts of North Africa and the Islamic world.

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  • old medina

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The medina’s lanes narrowed suddenly.
Shops lined the old medina.

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Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular medina; plural medinas. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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