often capitalized
: a place regarded as a center for a specified group, activity, or interest
a mecca for shoppers
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Examples of mecca in a Sentence
The valley is a mecca for wine lovers.
The town has become a mecca for tourists.
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New Around Orange County Pendry Newport Beach, one of the newer properties to emerge in town, is just across the street from the Fashion Island shopping mecca.
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Elycia Rubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
The summer 2023 star announcements solidified California’s reputation as a culinary mecca, reaffirming all six of the state’s three-star restaurants and all 12 two-star restaurants and praising hundreds of others for impressive cuisine, affordable meals or high sustainability standards.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
Those looking for something more than ranchland and winding rivers will find it at the Montage Big Sky, at the base of Big Sky Resort, a ski area and downhill mountain-bike mecca.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Take Stage Kitchen & Bar in the golfing mecca of Palm Beach Gardens, a global kitchen that dared to mash up Spanish octopus with chutneys and naan — and earned Marathe, for his boldness, a 2023 James Beard semifinalist nod.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
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Elycia Rubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
The summer 2023 star announcements solidified California’s reputation as a culinary mecca, reaffirming all six of the state’s three-star restaurants and all 12 two-star restaurants and praising hundreds of others for impressive cuisine, affordable meals or high sustainability standards.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
Those looking for something more than ranchland and winding rivers will find it at the Montage Big Sky, at the base of Big Sky Resort, a ski area and downhill mountain-bike mecca.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Take Stage Kitchen & Bar in the golfing mecca of Palm Beach Gardens, a global kitchen that dared to mash up Spanish octopus with chutneys and naan — and earned Marathe, for his boldness, a 2023 James Beard semifinalist nod.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
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“Mecca.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mecca. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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mecca
noun
mec·ca
ˈmek-ə 
often capitalized
: a place regarded as a center for a specified group, activity, or interest
a mecca for tourists
Etymology
named for Mecca, city in Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad and the goal of Muslim pilgrimages
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