Mecca vs Shereef - What's the difference?
mecca | shereef |
A city in 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.
(label) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.
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, 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.
* 1997 , John Romano, Muscle Meals , page 14.
As nouns the difference between mecca and shereef
is that mecca is while shereef is formerly, a member of an arab princely family descended from muhammad through his son-in-law ali and daughter fatima, the "grand shereef" being the governor of mecca.mecca
English
(wikipedia Mecca)Alternative forms
* Makkah, Makkah al-MukkaramahProper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* MeccanNoun
(en noun)George Goodchild
- 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.
- 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.
