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Definition for mohammed (2 of 2)
Mohammed II
or Muhammad II
noun
the Conqueror, 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.
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British Dictionary definitions for mohammed (2 of 2)
Mohammed II
noun
?1430–81, Ottoman sultan of Turkey (1451–81). He captured Constantinople (1453) and conquered large areas of the Balkans
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Mohammed
former common English transliteration of Muhammad.
The worst of letting the learned gentry bully us out of our traditional Mahometan & Mahomet ... is this: no sooner have we tried to be good & learnt to say, or at least write, Mohammed than they are fired with zeal to get us a step or two further on the path of truth, which at present seems likely to end in Muhammad with a dot under the h .... [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]
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