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mecca
(mekə)
Word forms: plural 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.
Mecca in British English
or Mekka (ˈmɛkə)
noun
1.
a city in W Saudi Arabia: birthplace of Mohammed; the holiest city of Islam, containing the Kaaba. Pop: 1 529 000 (2005 est)
Arabic name: Makkah2. (sometimes not capital)
a place that attracts many visitors
Athens is a Mecca for tourists
Mecca in American English 1
(ˈmɛkə)
noun
1.
any place visited by many people
2.
any place that one yearns to go to
3.
any goal that one is seeking to achieve
Derived forms
Meccan (ˈMeccan) adjective, noun
Word origin
after Mecca2Mecca in American English 2
(ˈmɛkə)
city in W Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea: birthplace of Mohammed & hence a holy city of Islam: pop. 618,000
Derived forms
Meccan (ˈMeccan) adjective, noun
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Examples of 'Mecca' in a sentenceMecca
In other languagesmecca
British English: Mecca /ˈmɛkə/ 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.
- American English: Mecca
- Arabic: مَكّةُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: Meca
- Chinese: 麦加
- Croatian: Meka
- Czech: Mekka
- Danish: Mekka
- Dutch: Mekka
- European Spanish: Meca
- Finnish: Mekka
- French: Mecque (la)
- German: Mekka
- Greek: Μέκκα
- Italian: Mecca
- Japanese: メッカ
- Korean: 메카
- Norwegian: Mekka
- Polish: Mekka
- European Portuguese: Meca
- Romanian: Mecca
- Russian: Мекка
- Latin American Spanish: Meca
- Swedish: Mecka
- Thai: กรุงเมกกะ
- Turkish: Mekke
- Ukrainian: Мекка
- Vietnamese: thánh đường Mecca
Chinese translation of 'mecca'
mecca
-
向往的地方
(xiàngwǎng de dìfang)
Mecca
(ˈmɛkə)
n
- (Geo)
麦(麥)加
(Màijiā) - (c) (fig)mecca
向往的地方
(xiàngwǎng de dìfang)