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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The office or jurisdiction of a caliph. The last caliphate was held by Ottoman Turkish sultans until it was abolished by Kemal Atatürk in 1924.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A unified federal Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by an elected head of state or caliph.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the office of a caliph
  2. n. 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
  3. n. the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

Etymologies

  1. From caliph +‎ -ate (Wiktionary)

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