Usually means: Center for activity or interest.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mecca: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mecca, mecca: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mecca: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mecca, mecca: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Mecca: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mecca, mecca: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mecca, mecca: Wordnik
  8. Mecca, mecca: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mecca, mecca: Wiktionary
  10. Mecca: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Mecca: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Mecca: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mecca: Dictionary.com
  14. Mecca: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mecca: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MECCA, Mecca (Gene Pitney song), Mecca (disambiguation), Mecca (musician), Mecca (song), Mecca, The MECCA: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. mecca: Rhymezone
  18. mecca: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mecca: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Mecca: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mecca: Netlingo
  2. Mecca: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. MECCA: Acronym Finder
  3. mecca, mecca: A Word A Day
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. mecca: Idioms
  6. mecca: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mecca: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. MECCA: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. M.E.C.C.A, Mecca, the mecca: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See meccas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sometimes proscribed)
noun:  A province of Saudi Arabia.
noun:  A large city, the provincial capital of Mecca Province in the in the Hejaz region, 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, if possible.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Riverside County, California.
noun:  A town in Wabash Township, Parke County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Missouri.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community in Trumbull County, Ohio.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (uncommon) A unisex given name, mostly borne by women.
noun:  (figuratively, sometimes offensive) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.
noun:  (figuratively, sometimes offensive); a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
noun:  Alternative form of Mecca [(sometimes proscribed)]

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