mosque

A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.

Noun

  1. A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
    • There's a mosque near where I live.
    • The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime...
    • One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in...

    Synonyms: masjid

Origin

From Middle French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”). Doublet of masjid.

Forms

mosques mosk

Derived

antimosque cybermosque Farthest Mosque inter-mosque intermosque megamosque mosque affiliation mosqued mosqueful mosque-goer mosque-going mosqueing mosqueless mosquelike mosque swallow mosque yard mosquish paramosque supermosque unmosqued victory mosque