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"word": "Great Mosque of Mecca"
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"word": "მექა"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"word": "La Mecca"
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"word": "មេកា"
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"roman": "Meka",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "메카"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "마카"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"word": "మక్కా"
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"code": "th",
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"ref": "1968, United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, The Seriously Handicapped and the Voluntary Health Agency: Proceedings of a Panel Discussion, Annual Meeting, May 2-3, 1968, page 32",
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"ref": "1912, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, page 107",
"text": "Mrs. Mecca Marie Varney and son are successful lecturers and debaters on various topics of current interest, such as suffrage, etc. Her home is in Paw Paw, Mich. Her lectures are managed by her husband, Charles E. Varney.",
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{
"ref": "2020, Born This Way Foundation reporters, Lady Gaga, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, Feiwel & Friends",
"text": "Just then, a young boy—named Mecca, as we learned later—arrived at the scene with the flight attendants who had been escorting him to his parents. In the midst of the frantic feeding of the protein bar, Mecca quietly announced:",
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},
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"rhymes": "-ɛkə"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Մեքքա"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
"code": "my",
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"roman": "makkamrui.",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "မက္ကာမြို့"
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Мекка"
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "麥加"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mak⁶ gaa¹",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "麦加"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "cop",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"word": "މައްކާ"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "მექა"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Makkah"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "La Mecca"
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{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Mekah"
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"code": "kk",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Мекке"
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{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "meikaa",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "មេកា"
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{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "메카"
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"code": "ko",
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{
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
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"roman": "Meke",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Меке"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Mecca"
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Meka"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Mekah"
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"word": "Makkah"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Maka"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Meka"
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{
"code": "mr",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
"code": "pal",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "mkkh (makkah)"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Maka"
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"code": "nog",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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{
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Mekka"
},
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"code": "or",
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"roman": "môkka",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "ମକ୍କା"
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"code": "or",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "ମକା"
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "Меккӕ"
},
{
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "Mekke",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "مكه"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "Mekke-i Mükerreme",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "مكۀ مكرمه"
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"code": "ps",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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],
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},
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "مکه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"tags": [
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"word": "Mekka"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "pa",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "Ме́кка"
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{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"code": "sa",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
"word": "มักกะฮ์"
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"code": "uk",
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"code": "ug",
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"sense": "city in Saudi Arabia",
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"ref": "1826, “Sketches of the Medical Schools of Scotland”, in The Lancet, volume 11, page 254",
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"ref": "1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court",
"text": "By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.",
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"ref": "1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 558",
"text": "Tsuhu, or Lake Benevolence, is located in Fuhsing District, Taoyuan County, and formed by waters from the Tahan Creek (river). Its two sections of limpid water are enclosed within emerald green hills. When he was alive, the late President often came here as a place of retreat and meditation. It had been for this reason that his casket was moved here for temporary rest. The place has since become a Mecca for people all over the world to come and pay homage to Modern China's greatest leader.",
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"ref": "1991, The Economist Newspaper Ltd., The Economist",
"text": "On the other side of the Atlantic, stores in Paris's chic Avenue Montaigne, a mecca for Japanese tourists, said that sales to foreigners had fallen sharply.",
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},
{
"ref": "1997, John Romano, Muscle Meals, page 14",
"text": "Living in Venice, California and training at the Mecca of bodybuilding, Gold's Gym, I've seen some of the world's most dedicated and hard-training athletes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Rick Steves, Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2015: The Travel Skills Handbook, Avalon Travel, page 705",
"text": "I say how much I like the shabby lounge atmosphere of a ruin pub, and Laura declares that this one, Szimpla Kert (which means “Simple Garden”), is the mecca of ruin pubs.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, sometimes offensive) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"offensive",
"sometimes"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛkə/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛkə"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Mecca.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Mecca.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mecca"
},
{
"word": "Macca"
},
{
"word": "Makka"
},
{
"word": "Makkah"
},
{
"word": "Mekka"
},
{
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "Makkah al-Mukarramah"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mekka"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "makkā",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "मक्का"
},
{
"alt": "せいち",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seichi",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"word": "聖地"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mekka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Meca"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "мека"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"feminine"
],
"word": "meka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "important place to visit by people with a particular interest",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mecka"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Mecca",
"Mecca (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "Mecca"
}
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