Definitions for vilayets

vilayets vi·la·yet

Spelling: [vee-lah-yet]
IPA: /ˌvi lɑˈyɛt/

Vilayets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 365 anagrams from letters in vilayets (aeilstvy).

Definitions for vilayets

noun

  1. a province or main administrative division of Turkey.

Origin of vilayets

1865-70; Turkish Arabic wilāyah

Examples for vilayets

Kaimakam, kī-ma-kam′, n. a lieutenant-colonel in the Turkish army: the administrator of a subdivision of a vilayet.

They were on their way to work in a mine in the vilayet of Aidin.

Creatures of night and the silence, the gray apes of vilayet were voiceless.

The headwaters of the main arm of the Tigris have their source in the vilayet.

Eyalet, ī′a-let, n. a division of the Turkish Empire—vilayet.

At one time the famous Midhat Pasha was the governor of this vilayet.

My father, as you know, was missionary in the vilayet of Trebizond many years ago.

There are nearly 3,000 villages in the vilayet but no large cities.

But there is no horse west of vilayet that can distance Irem for long.'

I broke for the east, and finally reached the edge of the marshes that border this part of vilayet.

Word Value for vilayets
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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