calif

[ key-lif, kal-if ]

/ ˈkeɪ lɪf, ˈkæl ɪf /

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noun

a variant of caliph.

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Other definitions for calif (2 of 2)

Calif.

abbreviation

California.

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How to use calif in a sentence

Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said.
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The report — the subject of a now-public feud between the CIA and the committee, led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
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DAP bred their horses at Harris Farm, in Coalinga, Calif., another peculiar decision.
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Temecula, Calif., Mayor Maryann Edwards says homeless people live on the street by choice.
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Herman says Egan was sexually abused by all three men at a home in Encino, Calif., and in Hawaii, and that force was used.
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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.
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Mills has chosen the opinion of Robertus Monachus, who states that the message of the calif was haughty and insolent.
The History of Chivalry|G. P. R. James
And King Marsil bids me say, thou shalt not blame him that his uncle the calif comes not too, for he is dead.
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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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British Dictionary definitions for calif (1 of 2)

calif

/ (ˈkeɪlɪf, ˈkæl-) /

noun

a variant spelling of caliph

British Dictionary definitions for calif (2 of 2)

Calif.

abbreviation for

California

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