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# sultan

«sultan» in Mova's school dictionary: **a king or ruler in some Muslim countries, both in history…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sultan, sultans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sultan is a king or ruler in some Muslim countries, both in history and today, such as the Sultan of Brunei or the Sultan of Oman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#m1)

2) In history, the sultans of the Ottoman Empire ruled a huge empire from Istanbul. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons you meet sultans in the Ottoman Empire, in stories of the Crusades (Sultan Saladin) and in tales like «One Thousand and One Nights». A country ruled by a sultan is a sultanate. Phrases: the Sultan of, sultan's palace, sultanate.

### examples

- The sultan lived in a palace with beautiful gardens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x1)
- The Sultan of Brunei is one of the world's richest rulers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x2)
- Saladin was a famous sultan at the time of the Crusades. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x3)
- The Ottoman sultans ruled from Istanbul for centuries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x4)
- In the story, the sultan listened to a new tale every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x5)
- A country ruled by a sultan is called a sultanate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x6)
- The sultan's wife was called the sultana. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x7)
- Oman is ruled by a sultan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x8)
- "The Sultan is welcome," he said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultan/#x9)

### note

Countable: one sultan, sultans. Capital S when used as a title (Sultan Suleiman). Trap: a «sultana» is a sultan's wife, mother or daughter, but also a kind of dried grape like a raisin (used in cakes and scones) — food, not royalty, in a recipe.

### In the corpora

- [The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/10/)
- [Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire by defeating the Delhi Sultan at Panipat in 1526.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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