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sultanry

sultanry noun: sultanate.

Noun

sultanry (plural sultanries)

  1. (archaic) sultanate.
    • Neither should I make any great difficulty to affirm the same of the sultanry of the Mamalukes ; where slaves , and none but slaves , bought for money , and of unknown descent , reigned over families of freemena. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...

Forms of sultanry

pluralsultanries

Origin of sultanry

From sultan + -ry.

Questions about sultanry

What does sultanry mean?
Sultanry means sultanate.
What part of speech is sultanry?
Sultanry is a noun.
What is the plural of sultanry?
The plural of sultanry is sultanries.

Words near sultanry in the dictionary

  1. sultanists
  2. sultanless
  3. sultanlike
  4. Sultanpur
  5. sultanries
  6. sultanry
  7. sultans
  8. sultanship
  9. sultanships
  10. sultany
  11. sulthiame

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