Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun caliphate

3 senses of caliphate

Sense 1
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")
       INSTANCE OF=> era, epoch -- (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)

Sense 2
caliphate -- (the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph)
       => jurisdiction -- (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

Sense 3
caliphate -- (the office of a caliph)
       => position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation -- (a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury")