Thesaurus / minaret
FEEDBACK- monument
- brace
- buttress
- caryatid
- colonnade
- cylinder
- mast
- monolith
- obelisk
- pedestal
- peristyle
- pier
- pilaster
- post
- prop
- pylon
- shaft
- standard
- stay
- stele
- support
- totem
- tower
- upright
- underpinning
- belfry
- castle
- citadel
- column
- fort
- fortification
- fortress
- keep
- lookout
- mast
- monolith
- obelisk
- pillar
- refuge
- skyscraper
- spire
- steeple
- stronghold
- turret
- cloud buster
- high-rise
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How to use minaret in a sentence
In Linxia, Gansu province, a city once nicknamed Little Mecca, the elaborate dome and minarets of Tiejia mosque were demolished last year for seeming too “Arabic,” say locals, and the call to prayer forbidden as a “public nuisance.”
HOW BEIJING IS REDEFINING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CHINESE, FROM XINJIANG TO INNER MONGOLIACHARLIE CAMPBELL/SHANGHAIJULY 12, 2021TIMEOver all rises the square, crescent-crowned minaret—no belfry, but a steeple where the chimes are rung by the human voice.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOLUME 11, NO. 24, MARCH, 1873VARIOUSThere was a minaret directly across the narrow street, so we had the call to prayer almost over our heads five times a day.
SILVER CHIMES IN SYRIAW. S. NELSONThe minaret rises higher above the mosque than the steeple usually does above the church.
LETTERS FROM PALESTINEJ. D. PAXTONBy day, bathed in the hot rays of the sun, its tall minaret-like outline looks like a block of ice against the blue sky.
FROM THE CAVES AND JUNGLES OF HINDOSTANHELENA PRETROVNA BLAVATSKYMinaret and pinnaret, battlement and shuttle-door, it was a perfect drug-store, nobly planned.
PTOMAINE STREETCAROLYN WELLSAnd then it had positively fallen towards the minaret till one could see the figures on her main gallery.
THE GREAT AIRSHIP.F. S. BRERETONBut what lamp can shine in the face of, the sun, or what minaret can be called high at the foot of the mountain of Alwend?
THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHANJAMES MORIERThe cry from the minaret now warns him that it is the hour for mid-day prayer.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, V. 3, NUMBER 18VARIOUSThe minaret, now called the Giralda, is certainly one of the most ancient buildings in the city.
THE STORY OF SEVILLEWALTER M. GALLICHANWORDS RELATED TO MINARET
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