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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 sultanplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SULTANATE (noun)


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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