mecca
(mekə )
Word forms: meccas
1. proper noun
Mecca is a city in Saudi Arabia, which is the holiest city in Islam because the Prophet Mohammed was born there. All Muslims face towards Mecca when they pray.
2. countable noun [usually singular]
If you describe a place as a mecca or Mecca for a particular thing or activity, you mean that many people who are interested in it go there.
His Batley Variety Club became a mecca for high-class acts and mass audiences.
Thailand has become the tourist mecca of Asia.
Image of mecca
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Translations:
Chinese: 麦加
Japanese: メッカ
- correctness
- correct number
- correct position
- correct posture
- correct prediction
- correct procedure
- correct pronunciation
- correct proportions
- correct reading
- correct response
- correct sentence
- correct sequence
- correct size
- correct spelling
- correct the record
- correct usage
- correlate
- correlate highly
- correlate positively
- correlates directly
- correlate significantly
- correlate strongly
- correlation
- correlation analysis
- correlation was found