Definition of "minaret" []

• A tall slender tower attached to a mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin summons the people to prayer. (noun)

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• "It is said that the word minaret comes from the Arabic term Al - manar, which means lighthouse and minaret."
• "Scott, you clearly were unaware that the minaret is the new axis of evil."
• "Mosul's degenerating old quarter, with its beetling Ottoman walls and elegantly stuccoed twelfth-century Seljuk minaret, is testimony to this cosmopolitan lineage."