Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Muslim.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Mohammedan, or follower of Mohammed; a true believer, in the Mohammedan sense; a Moslem.
- Of or pertaining to Moslems, or to their faith or customs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Mohammedan; a Moslem.
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- noun archaic a
Muslim
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word Mussulman is strikingly appropriate here, for the subjection of women is essentially one of those abuses which the religion of conquest has persistently regarded with supreme indifference.
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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Mussulman is devoutly fixed on the event of the judgment and the last day.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The very word Mussulman means, "One who has surrendered himself and his will to God."
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Mahmud himself, called the Mussulman world to arms.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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To know the laws of the physical world, the properties of their own bodies and minds, the past history of their species, is as much a benefit to the Jew, the Mussulman, the Deist, the Atheist, as to the orthodox churchman; and it is as iniquitous to withhold it from them.
Berlinski's Wisdom 2010
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Mussulman manner, into the sea for infidelity (167).
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"It's how they force captive Christians to convert to the Mussulman religion."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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After which the two daughters of this good Mussulman perfumed the beards of Candide, Pangloss, and Martin.
Don’t Just Do Something–Stand There! | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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Finally, at an ungodly hour, Cynthia Dunbar the one who thinks public schools are evil and that President Obama is a s3kr1t Mussulman gave her explanation.
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The tomb of the Owliah, or Mahomedan Saint, Cara Razi, was a place held in much reverence by every good Mussulman.
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