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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emirate
noun
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emirate

"rule or territory of an emir," 1847; see emir + -ate (1).

Wiktionary
emirate

n. 1 A country ruled by an emir. 2 The office of an emir.

WordNet
emirate
  1. n. the domain controlled by an emir

  2. the office of an emir

Wikipedia
Emirate

An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Islamic monarch styled emir. It also means principality.

Usage examples of "emirate".

Aquamarina both single and double, a mirage in an emirate, a geminate gem, an orgy of epithelial alliterations.

Although Iran helped cut down on the smuggling through the Persian Gulf, the Emirate of Dubayy in the UAE shrugged off pressure both from the United States and from its federal government in Abu Dhabi and routinely accepted huge cargoes of smuggled Iraqi oil.

The initial wave of immigration was sponsored by the governments of various oil-rich emirates in an effort to dispose of these unassimilable people peacefully.

North and the South Franks had ships there, as did the Spanish, the Aragonese, the Emirate of Granada, the Sultan of Morocco, the Hafsid caliph, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the King of Sicily, the Prince of Serbia, the Archcount of Corfu, and the King of Hungary.

Roman See for as long as I can recallboth the North and the South Franks had ships there, as did the Spanish, the Aragonese, the Emirate of Granada, the Sultan of Morocco, the Hafsid caliph, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the King of Sicily, the Prince of Serbia, the Archcount of Corfu, and the King of Hungary.

The six GCC states are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

While the photographer worked on one task, Dexter returned to the cybercafe, enquired after the United Arab Emirates and downloaded everything he could get.

The next morning, a plump Emirates financier, in his white gown, vest, kufi cap, and fastidiously trimmed beard, left his palatial home in Dubai to travel downtown for his meeting with the FBI.

He pointed with a ruler at the cluster of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Without anyone to report to, Mahmoud went back to his hotel and booked passage on a flight to Dubai on Emirate Airways for the following day.

Even in the oil emirates, the rising birthrate and the long-term decline in oil prices, coupled with the oversized welfare systems they put in place during the fat years of the 1970s, are straining their finances and in fact have driven Saudi Arabia into debt.

GCC states are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

As for the Gulf states--Qatar and some of the emirates, in particular--this is more of a straight business proposition for them.

I was so determined that I flew all the way back to New York and went to the United Arab Emirates Embassy and got the visa.

Persian Gulf, and half the American forces in the Twilight Emirates were on alert.