mosque
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++mosque /mɒsk $ mɑːsk/ ●●○ noun [countable]
RRIa building in which Muslims worship 清真寺
Examples from the Corpus
mosque• The 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]
a building in which Muslims worship
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'
Language: Old French
Origin: mosquee, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid, from sajada 'to lie face downward'

a building in which Muslims worship