What does mecca mean?

Definitions for mecca
ˈmɛk əmec·ca

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Meccanoun

    joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia; located in western Saudi Arabia; as the birthplace of Muhammad it is the holiest city of Islam

  2. meccanoun

    a place that attracts many visitors

    "New York is a mecca for young artists"

Wiktionary

  1. Meccanoun

    Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.

  2. Meccanoun

    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.

Wikipedia

  1. Mecca

    The UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena (originally the Milwaukee Arena and formerly MECCA Arena and U.S. Cellular Arena) is an indoor arena located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The arena, which seats as many as 12,700 people and offers 41,700 square feet (3,874 m2) of floor space, is part of a larger downtown campus, that includes the Milwaukee Theatre and Wisconsin Center. The arena was part of the MECCA Complex from 1974 until the 1995 opening of the Midwest Express Center.

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  1. mecca

    A Mecca is a place that is considered as the center or most important place of any specific activity or interest. It attracts people who are interested in that particular area or field. The term originated from the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which is the holiest city in Islam and attracts millions of Muslims for pilgrimage each year.

Wikidata

  1. Mecca

    Mecca, also transliterated as Makkah, is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Makkah Province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located 70 km inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m above sea level. Its resident population in 2012 was roughly 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during Hajj period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah. As the birthplace of Muhammad and a site of the Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran, Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam and a pilgrimage to it known as the Hajj is obligatory for all able Muslims. Mecca is home to the Kaaba, by majority description Islam's holiest site, as well as being the center of the Islamic universe. Mecca was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, acting either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger polities. It was absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1925. In its modern period, Mecca has seen tremendous expansion in size and infrastructure, home to structures such as the Abraj Al Bait, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, the world's second tallest building and the building with the largest amount of floor area. Due to this expansion, Mecca has lost some historical structures and archaeological sites, such as the Ajyad Fortress. Today, more than 15 million Muslims visit Mecca annually, including several million during the few days of the Hajj. As a result, Mecca has become one of the most cosmopolitan and diverse cities in the Muslim world, arguably the whole world over, despite the fact that non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the city.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Mecca

    the birthplace of Mahomet, the Holy City and Keblah of the Moslems, the capital of Hedjaz and the true capital of Arabia; in the midst of sandy valleys, and 60 m. distant from Jeddah, its port; a city to which every true Mussulman must make a pilgrimage once in his life; has a population which varies from 30,000 to 60,000. See Caaba.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. mecca

    A city of Arabia, capital of the province of Hejaz, and of the district Belud-el-Haram. This was the birthplace of Mohammed, and the cradle of the Mussulman creed. In 1804 and 1807, it was taken by the Wahabees, and in 1818, by Ibrahim Pasha.

Editors Contribution

  1. meccanoun

    The Holy City of Islam. Mecca is the destination of all Muslim pilgrims and the place toward which Muslims face when they pray. It is the site of the Kaaba , the Mount of Mercy, and other important religious sites.

    Mecca is the place to gather confirmative proof and information of the true religions from history.

    Etymology: Makkah


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on March 20, 2024  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MECCA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mecca is ranked #16349 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mecca surname appeared 1,762 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mecca.

    95.1% or 1,677 total occurrences were White.
    2.2% or 39 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.5% or 28 total occurrences were Black.
    0.5% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mecca in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mecca in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of mecca in a Sentence

  1. Ali Saeed:

    Will it ever end? God knows. I hope all our leaders can come to Mecca and share the same faith as all those people do.

  2. Christophe Landais:

    Mashhad is the destination for pilgrims. Actually Mashhad receives more pilgrims than Mecca in Saudi Arabia — about 25 million.

  3. Gale Ferranto:

    We call it the Mushroom Mecca.

  4. Bryn Mickle:

    I don't want in any way to give this impression that Flint was a beautiful mecca that had solved all its problems, that's not the case at all. But I will say there were a lot of bright spots, and there was a real feeling there was a renaissance going on.

  5. Jocelyn Charnas:

    For me, Barneys is mecca, i'll be very sad if it closes, mostly because I like to shop in person, I like to feel and touch fabric, and I think fit is so important.

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