Definitions for sultanates

sultanates sul·tan·ate

Spelling: [suhl-tn-eyt]
IPA: /ˈsʌl tnˌeɪt/

Sultanates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in sultanates (aaelnssttu).

Definitions for sultanates

noun

  1. the office or rule of a sultan.
  2. the territory ruled over by a sultan.

Origin of sultanates

First recorded in 1815-25; sultan + -ate3

Examples for sultanates

Murad succeeded his father in the sultanate as second of the name.

No sultanate so small, no little caliphate lost in the hills, no territory of mountains or of plains that is without its rebels.

The normal end of Roman Imperialism is a sultanate like that of Diocletian.

Persecutions followed the death of the great Caliph, particularly in the sultanate of Egypt.

That all captives within the sultanate of Sulu be delivered within one year.

In the second episode, Oliver discussed the implementation of Shariah law in the sultanate of Brunei.

Far to the west, near Lake Chad, arose in 1520 the sultanate of Baghirmi, which reached its highest power in the seventh century.

But after the death of Malik-Shah a contest for the sultanate took place.

An inhabitant of the sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa.

This volume must be regarded as the standard work on the sultanate of Zanzibar.

Word Value for sultanates
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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