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caliphate   (TTS Sound)

The noun caliphate has 3 senses

• Caliphate -- (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; "their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate")


• caliphate -- (the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph)


• caliphate -- (the office of a caliph)