Definitions for minarets

minarets min·a·ret

Spelling: [min-uh-ret, min-uh-ret]
IPA: /ˌmɪn əˈrɛt, ˈmɪn əˌrɛt/

Minarets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 672 anagrams from letters in minarets (aeimnrst).

Definitions for minarets

noun

  1. a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.

Origin of minarets

1675-85; French minaret, Spanish minarete, or Italian minaretto ≪ Arabic manārah lighthouse, perhaps akin to nār fire

Examples for minarets

Seldom had he looked at a minaret without thinking of prayer.

The minaret, I may here remark, is to the mosques what a steeple is to the church.

By this time also, if not earlier, the minaret had become universal.

It tints minaret after minaret, dome after dome, house after house.

Like the muezzin on his minaret, the elegist calls to prayer.

The minaret is a tall slender tower, peculiar to Turkish architecture.

The minaret is faced with tiles and is surmounted by a gilded crescent.

The minaret runs up a great deal higher, and there is a stairway.

One minaret of Byzantine design we passed on our way to the town.

But, as with the claims for minaret building in Switzerland, more is being demanded by Muslims.

Word Value for minarets
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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