SULTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sultan mean? 

• SULTAN (noun)
  The noun SULTAN has 1 sense:

1. the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)

  Familiarity information: SULTAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

grand Turk; sultan

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

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

Instance hyponyms:

Saladin; Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub (sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193))

 Context examples 

Sultan and the cat soon came up, and looked about and wondered that no one was there.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He smiled; and I thought his smile was such as a sultan might, in a blissful and fond moment, bestow on a slave his gold and gems had enriched: I crushed his hand, which was ever hunting mine, vigorously, and thrust it back to him red with the passionate pressure.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)