: a king or sovereign especially of a Muslim state
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Attracting everyone from sultans and princes to Charlie Caplin and Winston Churchill in its glory days, Impérial Palace is still the place to be more than a century later—and the views don’t get better than the top floor Imperial Suite, where a terrace shows off 360-degree vistas of Lake Annecy.
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Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
Following his armies’ conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II famously transformed the Hagia Sophia, built as a Christian church, into a mosque.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 May 2025
Others see the three circles and two wavy lines as a symbol of the three continents and two seas ruled by the sultans—Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Mediterranean and the Black Seas.
—Dorothy Armstrong
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
There remains a deep local respect for the sultan, however, even if it is not always captured in elite perspectives.
—Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
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Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
Following his armies’ conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II famously transformed the Hagia Sophia, built as a Christian church, into a mosque.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 May 2025
Others see the three circles and two wavy lines as a symbol of the three continents and two seas ruled by the sultans—Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Mediterranean and the Black Seas.
—Dorothy Armstrong
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
There remains a deep local respect for the sultan, however, even if it is not always captured in elite perspectives.
—Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
See All Example Sentences for sultan
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sultan
noun
sul·tan
ˈsəlt-ᵊn 
: a king or ruler especially of a Muslim state
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