Usually means: Ruler in a Muslim country.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word sultan:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sultan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sultan, the Sultan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sultan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sultan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sultan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sultan, sultan: Wordnik
  7. sultan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sultan, sultan: Wiktionary
  9. sultan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sultan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sultan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sultan: Dictionary.com
  13. sultan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sultan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sultan (Telugu film), Sultan (ape), Sultan (chicken), Sultan (chimpanzee), Sultan (comics), Sultan (disambiguation), Sultan (hip hop artist), Sultan (horse), Sultan (name), Sultan (rapper), Sultan (solitaire), Sultan, The Sultan (Disney): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sultan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sultan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sultan: Rhymezone
  19. Sultan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sultan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sultan: Free Dictionary
  22. sultan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The sultan, sultan: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Sultan, The sultan: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The sultan, sultan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arab Gateway Quick Reference Glossary (external links) (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sultan: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sultanic as well.)

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noun:  (historical) The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
noun:  A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, Morocco (until 1956) or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
noun:  (card games, uncountable) A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
noun:  A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See: sultan (chicken)
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A glacier in Antarctica
noun:  A village in Azerbaijan
noun:  A coastal town in Libya
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ontario
noun:  A town, village and mountain range in Turkey
noun:  A city and river in Washington

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