sultanates

Definition of sultanatesnext
plural of sultanate

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Noun
  • Test your knowledge of sports soundtracks, entertainment empires and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Prosperous empires throughout history have suffered failures born from complacency.
    Jamie Holmes, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Abu Dhabi is the biggest by landmass of the seven emirates making up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the second most populous after Dubai, while its main city is both the capital of the emirate and the wider UAE.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The burial ground dates back to a significant time in English history, when regional kingdoms started to form and consolidate power.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The early Iron Age kingdoms of Neo-Assyria, Egypt, Israel and Judah, and their relationship to the Phoenician cities, underlie our understanding of these events.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Several countries that once abolished their monarchies—including Spain, Cambodia, and Britain (under Oliver Cromwell)—later restored them as constitutional monarchies.
    Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • First, that monarchies are inherently corrupt.
    Dan Snyder, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And the reason for that is that the default data and the default experience does not coincide with the ratings that the ratings agencies attribute to African sovereigns.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has similarly dropped into deep curtsies when meeting other sovereigns on trips abroad.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In these domains, embracing merit may have its flaws.
    Kenji Yoshino, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Local governments operate mostly independently, and business and institutional leaders have power over their domains.
    Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • With crops failing and fears of starvation rising, some wealthy Italian city-states like Florence and Venice imported grain from elsewhere in the world.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
  • An ensuing grain shortage threatened to spark a famine or civil unrest, so Italian city-states, such as Venice and Genoa, resorted to emergency imports from the Black Sea region, which helped keep the population fed.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Sultanates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultanates. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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