The following are extreme weather events in Mecca and the surrounding area. In November 2009, Makkah Province was badly affected when record-breaking rainfall of 90 millimetres (3.5 in) hit the province causing flash floods all over the province.
Definition of spinster. 1 : a woman whose occupation is to spin. 2a archaic : an unmarried woman of gentle familyb : an unmarried woman and especially one past the common age for marrying.
Historical Examples. 1  Men always treat with derision the woman anxious for matrimony, and gibe equally at the spinster who fails to attain it. Modern marriage and how to bear it Maud Churton Braby. 2  There is no absurd conventionality, tacking a spinster to a married woman.'. Heartsease Charlotte M. Yonge.