Noun

(en noun)

(label) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=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.}}

* 1991 , The Economist , The Economist Newspaper Ltd.

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.

* 1997 , John Romano, Muscle Meals , page 14.

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.

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.

* Bible, Luke xxiii. 43

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .

* Longfellow

It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .

(figuratively) A very pleasant place.

an island paradise in the Caribbean

(figuratively) A very positive experience.

(architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

A churchyard or cemetery.