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sultanship (countable and uncountable, plural sultanships)

1. The office or status of a sultan.

   Synonym: sultanate

   Coordinate terms: emirship, emirate

   • 2006, John N. Paden, Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution, page 128:

     In essence, he moved the symbolism of the sultanship from an emirate or caliphal base to a national base. Various Muslim circles and conferences outside Nigeria came to regard him as the chief spokesman for Nigerian Muslims.