sultan
IPA: sˈʌɫtʌn
noun
- (historical) The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
- A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, Morocco (until 1956) or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
- (card games, uncountable) A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
- A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See: sultan (chicken)
- A surname.
- A glacier in Antarctica
- A village in Azerbaijan
- A coastal town in Libya
- An unincorporated community in Ontario
- A town, village and mountain range in Turkey
- A city and river in Washington
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Examples of "sultan" in Sentences
- The Sultan has the absolute power.
- His father was an advisor to the Sultan of Deli.
- The event alarmed both the patriarch and sultan.
- Sultan is just the most eloquent of Islam's critics.
- The Sultan was killed in a fracas with the Portuguese.
- The power of the Emirs surpassed the capacity of the Sultans.
- The task of the resident was to advise the Sultan politically.
- The France of the Crusades even became the ally of the sultan.
- The society was hierarchical, with the sultan serving as despot.
- The sovereignty of the sultanate was transferred to the parliament.
- They loved mall, and to play before the sultan was a special honor.
- So who better to ask than Lash Fary, the so-called sultan of swag, joining me in New York.
- Reagan had pretty seriously deteriorated by this point, and the grand vizier has a lot of power when the sultan is senile.
- The sultan is the virtual editor, and consequently the papers are popular, as containing opinions on state policy _ex cathedra_.
- The sultan is a well-informed and courtly gentleman, with a polish of mind and manners we were quite unprepared to find hidden away in the heart of Java.
- French; but the sultan is the source of all law, civil and military; he is the summit, while the municipal institutions are the base, of the political fabric.
- Prince Amir, with a hundred other sons of the sultan, is kept prisoner in a palace where intrigue, murder, and poison are the least of their troubles -- a cursed spirit hunts the princes down, killing one after another.
- Joinville at 400,000 French livres of his own time, and expressed by Matthew Paris by 100,000 marks of silver, (Ducange, Dissertation xx. sur Joinville.)] 99 The idea of the emirs to choose Louis for their sultan is seriously attested by Joinville,
- [Illustration: HIPPOPOTAMUS] "It was in the Buffalo Swamp," continued he, "that I saw the splendid birds you call sultan cocks, and I set my heart on catching one alive, which, as they seemed to have little fear of my approach, I managed by means of a wire snare.
- 58 The humble title of emir was no longer suitable to the Ottoman greatness; and Bajazet condescended to accept a patent of sultan from the caliphs who served in Egypt under the yoke of the Mamalukes: 59 a last and frivolous homage that was yielded by force to opinion; by the Turkish conquerors to the house of Abbas and the successors of the Arabian prophet.
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