1. Jiddah - Noun
2. Jiddah - Proper noun
port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca
Source: WordNetApparently, the sea link between Jiddah and Suez was considerably more important than historians had realized before the search for shipwrecks began in the Red Sea in 1994. Source: Internet
After his Ikhwan armies chased Sharif Hussain of the Hijaz clear off the peninsula and into exile on Cyprus, he held a position of unassailable strength, and gained full British recognition of his sovereignty by the Treaty of Jiddah in 1927. Source: Internet
By the time it acquired its first tent, had put it up in Jiddah, Riyadh and Hofuf, and had watched almost 200,000 people troop through, Aramco realized it was in the petroleum exhibit business for good. Source: Internet
Aramco, for example, recently donated $100,000 to the two-year-old King 'Abd al-'Aziz University of Jiddah, a semi-private university only partly subsidized by the government. Source: Internet
From Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, a Djibouti Airways flight took us for the hop across the Red Sea and down the East African coast to Djibouti, a charming, sleepy little seaport with a distinctly French flavor. Source: Internet
Effat College’s campus in south Jiddah comprises part of the former campus of Dar al-Hanan, the first school for girls in Saudi Arabia, founded in 1955, also by Princess Effat. Source: Internet