Muslim
Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- Muslimism noun
- anti-Muslim adjectiveanti-Muslim, anti-Muslims
- half-Muslim adjectivehalf-Muslim, half-Muslims
- non-Muslim adjectivenon-Muslim, non-Muslims
- pre-Muslim adjectivepre-Muslim, pre-Muslims
- pro-Muslim adjectivepro-Muslim, pro-Muslims
- pseudo-Muslim adjectivepseudo-Muslim, pseudo-Muslims
Etymology
Origin of Muslim
< Arabic, literally, a person who submits. See Islam
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Example Sentences
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"Muslim villages too... we stand with all the people of the south who were forced to flee their homes."
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Rahbar was raised in a Muslim family, but said he was agnostic when he left Iran.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
Lesbian and Gay History and Muslim Masculinities, absorbing everything my instructors had to say about “queerness”—until I learned what they actually meant by the term.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
India no longer has royals and Awadh, once a princely state ruled by semi-autonomous Muslim nawabs, now exists only as a historical region in central Uttar Pradesh.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
He noted that instead of accepting Aristotle’s proof of God, the Muslim scholars turned to the atomists, Aristotle’s old rivals, whose doctrine, though out of favor, managed to survive the ravages of time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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