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• Soldan
  Soldan

  noun

  the ruler of an Islamic country.
• soldan
  soldan

  noun

  an archaic word for sultan

Soldan

American  

[sol-duhn, sohl-, sohd-n] / ˈsɒl dən, ˈsoʊl-, ˈsoʊd n /

noun

1. the ruler of an Islamic country.

2. Archaic. a sultan, especially the sultan of Egypt.

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soldan British  

/ ˈsəʊldən, ˈsɒl- /

noun

1. an archaic word for sultan

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Etymology

Origin of Soldan

1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French < Arabic. See sultan

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Example Sentences

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Police Chief John Hayden said the girl and her family had attended a football exhibition about a block away at Soldan High School.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2019

David Paz Soldan, a 26-year-old lawyer, is patiently asking the Spanish-speaking caller.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the family moved from Rochester to St. Louis, he was to all appearances happily enrolled at Soldan High School.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Philip II. is at one time the Soldan, at another the Spanish monster Geryoneo, at another the fosterer of Catholic intrigues in France and Ireland, Grantorto.

From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church

See also Soldan, ii. 552-556, who, as usual, is very full and satisfactory in everything bearing upon the relations of France to Germany.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

And it is from Babylon the less, where the soldan dwelleth, unto Mecca above-said, into a thirty-two journeys.

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

And after, they chose another to be soldan, that they clept Tympieman; and he let deliver Saint Louis out of prison for a certain ransom. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

And from Babylon where the soldan dwelleth, to go right between the Orient and the Septentrion toward the great Babylon, is forty journeys to pass by desert. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

The soldan, who was conquered by the Tartars, had a lawful wife of Iberia, by whom he had one feeble son, whom he directed to succeed him as soldan.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

He was sent ambassador extraordinary by Ferdinand and Isabella, in 1501, to Venice, and thence to the grand soldan of Egypt.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving

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