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  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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

For some obscure reason, too, the Soldan with his green face and his red beard is intended by the artist to be alive.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

From Naxuam we travelled in fifteen days into the country of the soldan of Turkey, to a castle called Marseugen, inhabited by Armenians, Curgians, and Greeks, the Turks only having the dominion.

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

And whoso will go by land through the land of Babylon, where the soldan dwelleth commonly, he must get grace of him and leave to go more siker through those lands and countries.

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

And after, one that was clept Guytoga took him and put him in prison in the castle of Mountroyal, and made him soldan by strength, and clept him Melechadel; and he was of Tartary. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

Niquea, the daughter of an Eastern soldan, had fallen in love with him by report, and had sent him her picture by the hands of a favourite dwarf.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

And the first soldan was Zarocon, that was of Media, as was father to Saladin that took the Caliph of Egypt and slew him, and was made soldan by strength. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

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