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# khanate

«khanate» in Mova's school dictionary: **a land or state ruled by a khan, a ruler of Mongol or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a khanate, khanates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A khanate is a land or state ruled by a khan, a ruler of Mongol or Turkic peoples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#m1)

2) It also means the power or rule of a khan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in history lessons about Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire, the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate; it tells the reader the place was a kingdom ruled by a khan. Phrases: the Crimean Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, a powerful khanate.

### examples

- The Mongol Empire split into several khanates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x1)
- The Crimean Khanate lasted for more than three hundred years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x2)
- Each khanate had its own khan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x3)
- Our history book shows a map of the Golden Horde khanate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x4)
- The khanate collected taxes from the towns it ruled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x5)
- Moscow was once forced to pay tribute to a khanate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x6)
- Kazan was the capital of a khanate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/#x7)

### note

Countable noun: one khanate, two khanates. It is built from «khan» + «-ate», like «sultanate» or «emirate». Say «a khanate» (the k sounds hard). Do not confuse «khan» (a ruler) with the ordinary word «can».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «khanate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.