sultanate

«sultanate» in Mova's school dictionary: a country or land ruled by a sultan, a Muslim king or ruler — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sultanate, sultanates)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sultanate is a country or land ruled by a sultan, a Muslim king or ruler. tree →

2) It can also mean the time when a sultan ruled, or the sultan's position. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons: the Ottoman Empire, the Delhi Sultanate, the Sultanate of Oman, Brunei; it tells the reader what kind of government a place has or had.

examples

• Oman is a sultanate on the Arabian Peninsula. tree →
• Brunei is a small sultanate on the island of Borneo. tree →
• The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for centuries. tree →
• The sultan's palace was the heart of the sultanate. tree →
• Trade made the sultanate rich. tree →

note

Countable. Built from «sultan» + «-ate» (like «emirate» from «emir»). Do not confuse with «sultana» (a dried grape, or a sultan's wife).

In the corpora

• Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sultanate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.