Mahometan

American  

[muh-hom-i-tn] / məˈhɒm ɪ tn /

noun

Archaic.

1. Muslim.

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Mahometan British  

/ məˈhɒmɪtən /

noun

1. a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion

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Other Word Forms

• Mahometanism
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of Mahometan

First recorded in 1520–30; Mahomet + -an

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Example Sentences

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Mahometan

Morocco is full of these colleges, or rather lodging-houses of the students frequenting the mosques; for all Mahometan education is given in the mosque itself, only the preparatory work being done in the colleges.

From In Morocco by Edith Wharton

I am a fatalist, in fact, like a Mahometan, and I believe that all that we do for the progress of humanity is of no use.

From The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

Or the supremacy of the Christian, Mahometan, or any other church?

From The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner

Lord Grey, who was for 'a Mahometan conquest,' was censured and 'girded at:' yet the end was always broken heads.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

But they profess the Mahometan religion, belong evidently to the Turkish race, and have been from all time implacable foes to the Mongol hordes.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

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