sultan
noun
the sovereign of an Islamic country.
sultanic
-
a word derived from
sultan.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
First, he has modified the law of sultanic succession by giving women the right to rule.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
In Tarçın Gezegeni, synths and drums take us back to that decade, with the sultanic melody of a toy melodica creating a weirdly elegant and hard-drinking piece of work.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
Their intense, expressionist works did not flirt, like Klimt's gilded sultanic pictures, with bourgeois prettiness and what the catalog calls "proto-psychedelic sweetness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside the palace he found a sultanic shambles.
From Time Magazine Archive
My lord, I am amazed at the indiscretion of a demigod," said Babbalanja, as we passed on our way; "I recognized your sultanic style the very first sentence.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
