[
UK
/mˈɛkɐ/
]
[ US /ˈmɛkə/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛkə/ ]
NOUN
- joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia; located in western Saudi Arabia; as the birthplace of Muhammad it is the holiest city of Islam
How To Use Mecca In A Sentence
- Happily, some men want not to abase towards Mecca five times in every day...' A battery of winds sprang up. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- Happily, some men want not to abase towards Mecca five times in every day...' A battery of winds sprang up. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- Happily, some men want not to abase towards Mecca five times in every day...' A battery of winds sprang up. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- And yet here they are at the mecca of pedigree dogdom. Times, Sunday Times
- It would make California a mecca for shareholder lawsuits.
- The Cuban experience may have some benefit in high - tech meccas as well.
- The sum which he demanded appeared exorbitant to the hadji, who, forgetting that he was a saint, and fresh from Mecca, fumed outrageously, and in broken Spanish called the boatman thief. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
- Afghan engineers and their mentors pieced together a 42-metre, metal "overbridge" earlier this week at Kandahar Airfield and then moved parts of the Meccano-like structure a few kilometres to the blast site. Dose.ca Music briefs
- Maybe he didn't use the word mecca, but the idea was that our city would become a place where homosexuals nationwide could come and live openly. Bob Schwartz Dot Com
- Donating a share of one's income to charity, zakat, is a fundamental requirement of being a Muslim, more important - some say - than the pilgrimage to Mecca.