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CALIPHATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The office of a caliph
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("caliphate" is a kind of...):
berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("caliphate" is a kind of...):
jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community
Example:
their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
epoch; era (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)
