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An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans
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caravanserai
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A roadside inn having a central courtyard where caravans can rest. 2 A home or shelter for caravans.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary , khan , caravan inn ]
Wikipedia
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Caravanserai is the fourth studio album by Santana released in October 1972. It marked a major turning point in Carlos Santana 's career as it was a sharp departure from his critically acclaimed first three albums. Original bassist David Brown left the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Crest Hotel Formerly known as the Esso, this bright modern caravanserai has all the comforts and expected facilities.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, carvanzara , "Eastern inn (with a large central court) catering to caravans," ultimately from Persian karwan-sarai , from karwan (see caravan ) + sara'i "palace, mansion; inn," from Iranian base *thraya- "to protect" (see seraglio ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caravansary \Car`a*van"sa*ry\, n.; pl. Caravansaries . [F. caravans['e]rai, fr. Per. karw[=a]nsar[=a "i]; karw[=a]n caravan + -sar[=a "i] palace, large house, inn.] A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished ...
Usage examples of caravanserai.
He had bought the valley, and the caravanserai that came with it, more or less on a whim.
The toxic result resided in the vaults of the caravanserai, a troubling burden he tried his very best to forget.
In the bowels of the caravanserai, young ladies who a year before had been hand-weaving cloth for clothing and hand sewing same were using computers to analyze voice intercepts, running satellite communications gear and managing one of the most advanced battlefield networks to be found in the world.
Intelligent, balanced, speaking seven languages, she could barely bring herself to go to Allerso, population fifty, within sight of the caravanserai, practically owned by Mike.
Blackhawk piloted by a local and now she was having an English tea in an Ottoman caravanserai, complete with harem.
Kildar believes that they first came to the valley as guards for the caravanserai during the Byzantine period.
We have two useable sets of quarters, the barracks and the caravanserai up on the ridge.
The other bad news is that the caravanserai is the personal home of the local landowner and warlord.
For that reason and because she just could not ask those people for a ride, she had walked the long way back to the caravanserai, her eyes blank and staring.
It would take five hours to travel the hundred kilometers between the changeover spot and the caravanserai, their lodging for the coming night.
Dusk was deepening into night as a low, sprawling, palisaded building that could only be the caravanserai came into view ahead.
Since nearly all of the caravanserai was in a breakdown zone, maintenance machines were disqualified from cleaning the toilets and performing the hundred other tasks of daily housekeeping.
He was waking up on one of the narrow cots in a small room in the caravanserai on Maracanda, and peoplelive, solid peoplewere forcing their way in through the window.
By this time other people, guests and workers of the caravanserai, roused by the uproar, were crowding in at the empty doorway, walking on the fallen door, beginning a clamor of comments and questions.
Guests of the caravanserai jostled for space with members of the staff.