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Definition of Muslim
1. Noun. A believer in or follower of Islam.
Group relationships: Islam, Muslimism
Generic synonyms: Religious Person
Specialized synonyms: Islamist, Jihadist, Shi'ite, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslim, Shiite, Shiite Muslim, Sunni, Sunni Muslim, Sunnite, Moor, Assassin, Begum, Calif, Caliph, Kalif, Kaliph, Khalif, Khalifah, Fakeer, Fakir, Faqir, Faquir, Hakeem, Hakim, Hakim, Imam, Imaum, Mujahid, Mujtihad, Mollah, Mulla, Mullah, Muslimah, Saracen, Sufi, Wahabi, Wahhabi
Specialized synonyms: Fatima, Fatimah
Derivative terms: Moslem
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism. "Islamic art"
Derivative terms: Islam, Islam, Moslem
Partainyms: Islamism, Islamism, Islamism
Definition of Muslim
1. n. See Moslem.
Definition of Muslim
1. Adjective. Relating to believers of Islam. ¹
2. Noun. A person who is a follower and believer of the Islamic faith. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muslim
Literary usage of Muslim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"Muslim Rule in India not Foreign. Yet it is not right to say that the Muslim rule
in India ... The Muslim invaders were no doubt foreign in their origin, ..."
2. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"In September 1999, police arrested a popular Muslim leader for inciting his ...
A week later, the police canceled a planned Muslim demonstration to protest ..."
3. Spiritual Magazine (1867)
"Girgis was a Copt, though chosen head of the Muslim village. We went to the
church, which looked like nine beehives in a box. Inside, the nine domes, ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Rumi, a Greek); and Muslim opponents found in the East by the Portuguese thus
included not only true Arabs, whether of Arabia, Africa, or India, ..."
5. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"1908 A Muslim-CHRISTIAN SECT IN CYPRUS IN one of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's ...
Both men and women dress in Muslim style, and bear Muslim (secretly also ..."
6. Towards Asia's Sustainable Development: The Role of Social Protection by Oecd (2002)
"Ethnically, the primary division in Peninsular Malaya is between the majority
indigenous Muslim Malays and minority non-Malay Chinese and Indians. ..."
7. War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina by Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.), Helsinki Watch, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S., Ivana Nizich (1993)
"ABUSES BY CROATIAN AND Muslim FORCES2 Most of the abuses attributable to Bosnian
... Nevertheless, Bosnian Croatian and Muslim forces are guilty of serious ..."
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