Well attestedNamed from the place
mecca
noun · first attested 19th century
Any enthusiast's destination borrows one city in the Hejaz.
A place that draws people who care about one thing.
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Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Mecca
- In English
mecca
English uses the name of Islam's holiest city for any place of pilgrimage, however trivial. Lower-cased, it has drifted a long way from the original.