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Mahomedan

Mahomedan is the alternative form of Mohammedan.

Meaning of Mohammedan

Noun

Mohammedan (plural Mohammedans)

  1. (now largely obsolete and offensive) Muslim.
    • MOSQUE (Fr. mosquée, from Sp. mezquita, from Ar. masjid, temple, from sajada, to prostrate one's self, to pray). A Mohammedan house of prayer and worship. Examples of these buildings are found wherever the Mohammedan faith has prevailed, from Spain to India and Turkestan.1905, “Mosque”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company

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Forms of Mahomedan

pluralMahomedans

Origin of Mahomedan

From Mahomed + -an.

Questions about Mahomedan

What is Mahomedan the alternative form of?
Mahomedan is the alternative form of Mohammedan.

Words near Mahomedan in the dictionary

  1. maholtine
  2. Mahoma
  3. Mahomad
  4. Mahomat
  5. Mahomed
  6. Mahomedan
  7. Mahomedanism
  8. Mahomedans
  9. Mahomedism
  10. Mahomet
  11. Mahometan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mahomedan (page history and authors); Mohammedan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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