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.
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Translations:
Chinese: 麦加
Japanese: メッカ
- attractive investment
- attractively
- attractiveness
- attractive option
- attractive package
- attractive packaging
- attractive personality
- attractive price
- attractive proposition
- attractive prospect
- attractive quality
- attractive return
- attractive target
- attractive trait
- attractive valuation
- attractive yield
- attract listeners
- attract publicity
- attract recruits
- attract scrutiny
- attract shoppers
- attract spectators
- attract sponsors
- attract students
- attract support