Mecca Definition

mĕkə
meccas
noun
Any place that draws tourists or visitors of a certain kind.
Cooperstown is a Mecca for baseball fans.
Webster's New World
A place that is regarded as the center of an activity or interest.
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A goal to which adherents of a religious faith or practice fervently aspire.
American Heritage
Any place that one yearns to go to.
Webster's New World
Any goal that one is seeking to achieve.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam, location of the sacred Ka'ba, and to which Muslims are required to make a hajj at least once in their lifetime.

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Singular:
mecca
Plural:
meccas

Origin of Mecca

  • After Mecca (from its being a place of pilgrimage)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mecca Sentence Examples

  • According to Niebuhr, in the 18th century a fleet of nearly twenty vessels sailed yearly from Suez to Jidda, the port of Mecca and the place of correspondence with India.

  • Railway construction has begun in Arabia, and in 1908 the Hejaz line, intended to connect Damascus with Mecca, had reached Medina, Soo m.

  • In 691 Abdalmalik (`Abdul-Malik) determined to crush his rival and sent his general Hajjaj against Mecca.

  • The earliest mosque erected was that at Mecca, which consisted of a great court, in the centre of which was the Ka`ba or Holy Stone.

  • Suez is a quarantine station for pilgrims from Mecca; otherwise its importance is due almost entirely to the ships using the canal.

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