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# sultanate

«sultanate» in Mova's school dictionary: **a country or land ruled by a sultan, a Muslim king or ruler** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sultanate, sultanates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sultanate is a country or land ruled by a sultan, a Muslim king or ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#m1)

2) It can also mean the time when a sultan ruled, or the sultan's position. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons: the Ottoman Empire, the Delhi Sultanate, the Sultanate of Oman, Brunei; it tells the reader what kind of government a place has or had.

### examples

- Oman is a sultanate on the Arabian Peninsula. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#x1)
- Brunei is a small sultanate on the island of Borneo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#x2)
- The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for centuries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#x3)
- The sultan's palace was the heart of the sultanate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#x4)
- Trade made the sultanate rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultanate/#x5)

### note

Countable. Built from «sultan» + «-ate» (like «emirate» from «emir»). Do not confuse with «sultana» (a dried grape, or a sultan's wife).

### In the corpora

- [Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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