- a building where Muslims go for prayer
- I used to pray at the local mosque with my father and grandfather.
- We were woken by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque.
Word Originlate Middle English: from French mosquée, via Italian and Spanish from Egyptian Arabic masgid.Definitions on the go
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