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SULTANATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sultanate mean?
• SULTANATE (noun)
The noun SULTANATE has 1 sense:
1. country or territory ruled by a sultan
Familiarity information: SULTANATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Country or territory ruled by a sultan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("sultanate" is a kind of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Instance hyponyms:
Brunei; Negara Brunei Darussalam (a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984)
Terengganu (sultanate and one of the 13 states of the Federation of Malaysia)
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