Antonyms for caliphate
ˈkæl əˌfeɪt, -fɪt, ˈkeɪ lə-caliphate

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Princeton's WordNet

1. Caliphatenoun

   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"

2. caliphatenoun

   the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

3. caliphatenoun

   the office of a caliph

How to use caliphate in a sentence?

1. Siddhartha Dhar:

   I don't want to see another James Foley or Steven Sotloff or David Haines but unfortunately the way the West and the Europeans are going about things in terms of their policies with air strikes and intervening in the caliphate, sadly I can't see an end to this.

2. Max Abrahms:

   There's a growing understanding that the idea of the caliphate is dying and more and more the leadership is calling on foreign fighters not even to come to Iraq and Syria but to go elsewhere or to commit violence locally.

3. Hoshiyar Zebari:

   After all these years nobody wants to see a caliphate of hatred. They are no longer an existential threat to our existence. They are still a very very serious threat, how long it will take? I don’t have the crystal ball to tell you. It will take some time. I think we are winning, they are losing.

4. Abu Salman:

   We tell the European tyrants you have declared war on the Islamic State. This war that you declared is now turning against you. So know that the lions of the caliphate are only a few kilometers away from your borders.

5. Lindsey Graham:

   The only way you can protect America from another 9/11 is to destroy the caliphate, go in on the ground as part of a regional army, we can't outsource this.

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