CALIPHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caliphate mean? 

• CALIPHATE (noun)
  The noun CALIPHATE has 3 senses:

1. the era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community

2. the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

3. the office of a caliph

  Familiarity information: CALIPHATE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIPHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate

Instance hypernyms:

epoch; era (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("caliphate" is a kind of...):

jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The office of a caliph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("caliphate" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)