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Sultan vs Sultanless - What's the difference?

sultan | sultanless |

As a noun sultan

is sultan (ruler).

As an adjective sultanless is

without a sultan.

sultan

English

(wikipedia sultan)

Noun

  • Originally, a secular office, formally subordinate to -, but de facto the power behind the throne of the (theoretically universal) caliph.
  • A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
  • (card games) A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
  • A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See:

    • Derived terms

    * sultana * sultanate

    See also

    * sultana bird

    References

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    sultanless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a sultan.
  • * 1961 , Geneviève Gennari, The other woman I am
    • I was back in the strange world one lives in when one knows no men — the boarding school, the convent, the sultanless harem, the prison camp...