Word Meanings - SULTANATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

SULTANA
A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird , the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule. (more info) 1. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness. 2. pl.
SULTANSHIP
The office or dignity of a sultan.
DOMINION
A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16. Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority;
SULTAN
A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. Sultan flower. See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.
SULTANY
Sultanry. Fuller.
SULTAN-RED
Having a deep red color.
SULTANATE
The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
SULTANESS
A sultana.
SULTANRY
The dominions of a sultan. Bacon.
DOMINION DAY
In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.
SULTANIC
Pertaining to a sultan.
OLD DOMINION
Virginia; -- a name of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as "the Colony and Dominion of Virginia."
RESULTANCE
The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.
RESULTANT
Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. Resultant force or motion , a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more