SULTANATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Country or territory ruled by a sultan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("sultanate" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Brunei; Negara Brunei Darussalam (a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984)

Terengganu (sultanate and one of the 13 states of the Federation of Malaysia)

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