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mosque

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Islam
mosque /mɒsk $ mɑːsk/ ●●○ noun [countable]  RRIa building in which Muslims worship 清真寺
Examples from the Corpus
mosqueThe exterior is uninteresting but the interior, now used as a mosque, is very fine.At dawn the next day we were awoken by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque.Small stone oratories - the Druze have no mosques - stand amid the fields.But in 1980, there was only one mosque in the Phoenix area.Back in the early 1980s, there was a small community whose focal point was one mosque in Tempe.The Hassan Deftedar's mosque, Banjaluka.Did they even attend the mosque on a regular basis?The sound echoed out of the mosque towers across the town.
Origin mosque (1400-1500) Old French mosquee, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid, from sajada to lie face downward
mosque nounChinese
building in a Corpus Muslims which worship


mosque
mosque /mɒsk $ mɑːsk/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1400-1500
 Language: Old French
 Origin: mosquee, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid, from sajada 'to lie face downward'

a building in which Muslims worship


mosqueBrE /mɒsk/ 🔊NAmE /mɑːsk/ 🔊 nouna building in which Muslims worship 清真寺