calif

¹

[ key-lif, kal-if ]

noun

1. a variant of caliph.

Calif.

²

abbreviation for

1. California.

calif

¹

/ ˈkeɪlɪf; ˈkæl- /

noun

1. See caliph
   a variant spelling of caliph

Calif.

²

abbreviation for

1. California

Example Sentences

Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said.

From The Daily Beast

The report — the subject of a now-public feud between the CIA and the committee, led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

From The Daily Beast

DAP bred their horses at Harris Farm, in Coalinga, Calif., another peculiar decision.

From The Daily Beast

Temecula, Calif., Mayor Maryann Edwards says homeless people live on the street by choice.

From The Daily Beast

Herman says Egan was sexually abused by all three men at a home in Encino, Calif., and in Hawaii, and that force was used.

From The Daily Beast

Nothing could afford a nobler proof of a great, a liberal, and a delicate mind, than the choice evinced by the calif in his gift.

From Project Gutenberg

Mills has chosen the opinion of Robertus Monachus, who states that the message of the calif was haughty and insolent.

From Project Gutenberg

And King Marsil bids me say, thou shalt not blame him that his uncle the calif comes not too, for he is dead.

From Project Gutenberg

Mohammed made this demand of the calif through the medium of an embassador whom he sent to Bagdad.

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But when the calif proposed his plan to his counselors, some of them objected to it very strenuously.

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