Crossword clues for sultanate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sultanate \Sul"tan*ate\, n. [Cf. F. sultanat.] The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from sultan + -ate (1).
Wiktionary
n. A sovereign or vassal princely state - usually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim where the ruler is styled sultan.
WordNet
n. country or territory ruled by a sultan
Usage examples of "sultanate".
The founder of the Omani Sultanate of Zanzibar was Ahmad ibn Majid the Sly, who came to the throne of Oman in 1811--do you remember?
Can we shut our eyes to the deliberate provocations they are giving the Makhzen in almost every part of the sultanate?
Farhrooq to indicate obliquelywhenever and if ever the time is ripe, of coursethat I could be most generous to a multitalented paladin who chose to serve me and this sultanate.
He was minister of industrial policy for the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam, a tiny nation on the northern shore of the island of Borneo.
He seems to be using it as a generic ethnic term, but as nearly as I can tell, 'The Lemmar' appears to be a political unit, as wellsimilar to the Barbary Sultanate on Earth or the Shotokan Confederacy.
It had been considered a rock of stability in Southwest Asia, a sultanate with educated, enlightened leadership as close to representative government as a divine family of Islam could permit.
This part of the world is made up of these tiny realms, diminutive in comparison with the great kingdoms of the west, or the great sultanates of the farther east, but important in their control of the caravan routes, and in the wealth concentrated in them.
But here he is on a beach in the Sultanate of Kinakuta, down below Tom Howard's personal citadel, dipped in sunblock and Dramamined to the gills, getting ready to return.