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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The wife, mother, sister, or daughter of a sultan.
  2. n. The mistress of a sultan, king, or prince.
  3. n. Any of various green seedless grapes, especially the Thompson seedless, used in producing raisins and a white wine.
  4. n. The often yellow raisin made from this grape.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The mother, a wife, or a daughter of a sultan.
  2. n. A mistress, especially of a king or prince.
  3. n. A peculiar form of necklace worn by women in the second half of the eighteenth century.
  4. n. An obsolete musical instrument of the viol class, having several wire strings, tuned in pairs, like the zither.
  5. n. In ornithology, same as sultan, 2.
  6. n. A variety of raisin. See raisin, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A pale yellow raisin made from a seedless grape
  2. n. A female sultan or wife of a sultan

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.
  2. n. A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine
  2. n. dried seedless grape

Etymologies

  1. Italian, feminine of sultano, sultan, from Arabic sulṭān; see sultan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I also knew, that by birth the sultana was a Hindu, although on being wed to her lord as a little girl, she had of course embraced the true faith of Islam, in so far as it matters for a woman to have any religion at all.”

    Tales of Destiny

  • “And this skin was stretched over curves which likewise seemed ripened by a southern sun, recalling a sultana with their indolent and vegetative luxuriance.”

    Loulou

  • “The sultana was a sensible woman, and knew not only the weak side of her husband, but also the way to take advantage of it.”

    The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales

  • “If he gives a large sum to the girl, it will give his "sultana" a powerful weapon for the future.”

    The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance

  • “Never mind," she announces, quickly sticking a sultana in the top.”

    The Guardian: How to make Indian sweets

  • “Elsewhere, that day's specials included an interesting-sounding creamy potato, smoked cheese, apple and basil bake, a chunky vegetable and barley broth, and several mouth-watering puddings, such as apple and sultana crumble, and chocolate and almond torte.”

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  • “It was currently dressed like a sultana, and a particularly opulent sultana at that.”

    Fictionaut: Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck

  • “This recipe is based upon my mother's cake recipe (choose your flavour - butter, chocolate, sultana, rainbow, depending on what you add or omit).”

    Cacao Nibs

  • “They started their life as sultana polenta cakes from a recipe I spotted over coffee in some magazine.”

    Archive 2009-02-01

  • “In a fit of hopefullness I picked up a bag of organic bran flakes and a bag of sultanas this afternoon and have combined them in a glass jar as homemade raisin (well, sultana) bran.”

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