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SUBLIME PORTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sublime Porte mean? 

SUBLIME PORTE (noun)
  The noun SUBLIME PORTE has 1 sense:

1. the Ottoman court in Constantinopleplay

  Familiarity information: SUBLIME PORTE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUBLIME PORTE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The Ottoman court in Constantinople

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Porte; Sublime Porte

Hypernyms ("Sublime Porte" is a kind of...):

court; royal court (the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state)


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