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Mahometan

Mahometan 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 Mahometan

pluralMahometans

Origin of Mahometan

From Renaissance Latin Mahomētānus. By surface analysis, Mahomet + -an.

Questions about Mahometan

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

Words near Mahometan in the dictionary

  1. Mahomedan
  2. Mahomedanism
  3. Mahomedans
  4. Mahomedism
  5. Mahomet
  6. Mahometan
  7. Mahometanism
  8. Mahometanize
  9. Mahometanized
  10. Mahometanizes
  11. Mahometanizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mahometan (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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