Sultanate

Word SULTANATE
Character 9
Hyphenation sul tan ate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sultanate"

What do we mean by sultanate?

The office, power, or reign of a sultan. noun

A country ruled by a sultan. noun

The rule, dominion, or territory of a sultan. noun

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship. noun

A sovereign or vassal princely state - usually Muslim where the ruler is styled sultan. noun

Country or territory ruled by a sultan noun

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The word "sultanate" in example sentences

During the protracted war - a true guerilla war - which we had to wage with the Achin sultanate, both army and navy suffered very severely from the disease. ❋ Unknown (1965)

The bond was particularly strong in Asia Minor, always nursed by the sultanate from the earliest days; with the result that at the disposal first of the sultanate, then of Enver Pasha, last (owing to circumstances we shall have to consider) of Kemal Pasha, there are the resources of a country which we are told on high authority "no administration, however improvident and malign has been able to exhaust." ❋ Unknown (1923)

This hotel development represents a milestone for the sultanate, which is rapidly developing as a popular tourist destination. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Indeed, while some critics have spoken of Berlusconi's reign as a kind of sultanate of showgirls, or government by gaffe, others have described it as a republic of attorneys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Gayoom "sultanate" was an iron-fisted regime that ran the police, army and courts, and which banned rival parties. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The archipelago of 300,000 people on 1,196 islands will officially get its new president on November 11, exactly 30 years after the Gayoom "sultanate" began. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The decision follows several weeks of scattered, ongoing protests that have shaken the normally stable Gulf sultanate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His principled bearing, Mr. Bay suggests, helped him exercise authority and accumulate power even when all around him was a shambles, as the Young Turks, who opposed the Ottoman sultanate, bickered and "The Sick Man of Europe" suffered through his death throes. ❋ Philip Delves Broughton (2012)

This time last year, again as Mr. Ahmadinejad was traveling to New York, a third American hiker, Sarah Shourd, was also released on a $500,000 bail posted by the sultanate of Oman in the Persian Gulf. ❋ Farnaz Fassihi (2011)

Bauer and Fattal mimicked a similar arrangement for the release of a third American hiker at the same time last year, as Mr. Ahmadinejad was traveling to New York to address the U.N. Sarah Shourd, Mr. Bauer's fiancée, was also released on a $500,000 bail posted by the sultanate of Oman in the Persian Gulf. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

The rare demonstrations in the normally peaceful sultanate also spread to the capital, Muscat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even before accepting his first job, in the Sudanese Political Service, Thesiger had marked his card by financing an expedition through the forbidden sultanate of Aussa in eastern Ethiopia to find the source of the Awash River. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

Tropical storm Keila developed in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday and then moved across Oman, bringing torrential rain and flash floods across much of the sultanate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Oman, a small sultanate at the mouth of the oil-rich Persian Gulf, had its first protests, in which at least one person was killed. ❋ Margaret Coker (2011)

Demonstrators blocked roads to a main port in northern Oman and looted a nearby supermarket on Monday, part of protests to demand more jobs and political reform that have spread to the sultanate's capital. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Who provided the bail money that was paid as part of a deal brokered by the Gulf sultanate of Oman has never been clear. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Founded in 1411 by Ahmed Shah of the Gujarat sultanate, the city was something of a playground for internationally renowned architects in the 1950s, when the Western elite placed newly independent India on a pedestal as the hope of humanity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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