Crossword clues for caravanserai
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A roadside inn having a central courtyard where caravans can rest. 2 A home or shelter for caravans.
WordNet
n. an inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary, khan, caravan inn]
Wikipedia
A caravanserai (; ; ) was a roadside inn where travelers ( Caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey. In the Middle-East, it is often called by its Turko-Mongolian name khan, . In Bengal, it is known by the term katra. Caravanserais supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of trade routes covering Asia, North Africa, and southeastern Europe, especially along the Silk Road.
These were found frequently along the Persian Empire's Royal Road, a ancient highway that stretched from Sardis to Susa according to Herodotus: "Now the true account of the road in question is the following: Royal stations exist along its whole length, and excellent caravanserais; and throughout, it traverses an inhabited tract, and is free from danger." Major urban caravanserais were also built along the Grand Trunk Road in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the region of Mughal Bengal.
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 group in 1971 and was replaced by Doug Rauch and Tom Rutley, while original percussionist Michael Carabello left and was replaced by Armando Peraza. Keyboardist/vocalist Gregg Rolie, who was having a falling-out with Santana, was replaced by Tom Coster on a few songs. Caravanserai reached number eight in the Billboard 200 chart and number six in the R&B Albums chart in 1972.
The sound contrasted greatly with Santana's trademark fusion of salsa, rock, and jazz, and concentrated mostly on jazz-like instrumental passages. All but three tracks were instrumentals, and consequently the album yielded no hit singles. The album is the first among a series of Santana albums that were known for their increasing musical complexity, marking a move away from the popular rock format of the early Santana albums towards a more contemplative and experimental jazz sound. While Caravanserai is regarded as an artistic success, the musical changes that began on its release in 1972 marked the start of a slide in Santana's commercial popularity. This album has been mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.
In a 2013 interview, drummer and album co-producer Michael Shrieve recalled Columbia Records President Clive Davis, upon first hearing the finished album, telling Carlos he was committing "career suicide".
It was the last Santana album to feature Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon, who went on to form Journey the following year.
In 2000 SME records in Japan, part of Sony Music, also released the remastered version as an SACD. This disc is stereo only, and furthermore, it is a single layer SACD, which means that ordinary CD players will not play it.
The album was remastered in 2003 for Columbia Legacy.
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.