Definition of Shahdom

1. Noun. The position, dignity or jurisdiction of a shah. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shahdom

1. the territory ruled by a shah [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shahdom

shagnasties
shagnasty
shagpile
shagreen patch
shagreen patches
shagreen skin
shagreened
shagreens
shagroon
shagroons
shags
shahada
shahadah
shahdom (current term)
shahdoms
shaheed
shaheeds
shaheen
shaheens
shahid
shahids
shahin
shahins
shahs
shahtoosh
shahtooshes
shahtush
shaik

Literary usage of Shahdom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum by Charles Thomas Marvin (1891)
"Seven million people, scattered over desert or mountain-severed provinces, susceptible of being easily broken off the shahdom in detail, and possessing ..."

2. The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum by Charles Thomas Marvin (1884)
"Seven million people, scattered over desert or mountain-severed provinces, susceptible of being easily broken off the shahdom in detail, and possessing ..."

3. England and Germany by Emile Joseph Dillon (1917)
"... and the German mission at Teheran, as well as the Consulates in the chief towns of the shahdom, became centres of agitation against Britain and Russia ..."

4. Central Asian Portraits: The Celebrities of the Khanates and the by Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger (1880)
"Persian though he be, Shuja-ud-Dowlah is bitterly anti-Persian in inclination. He believes that his country is decaying, and that the days of the shahdom ..."

5. Central Asian Portraits: The Celebrities of the Khanates and the by Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger (1880)
"Persian though he be, Shuja-ud-Dowlah is "bitterly anti-Persian in inclination. He believes that his country is decaying, and that the days of the shahdom ..."

6. Merv, the Queen of the World; and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans by Charles Thomas Marvin (1881)
"Elsewhere in Persia the people not only pay heavy taxes, but are liable to serve in the army in any part of the shahdom, ..."

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