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SULTANATE
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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)