Caravanserai

Quick meaning: Caravanserai is a noun meaning (by extension) Synonym of caravan (“a convoy of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and pack animals”).

Meaning

(by extension) Synonym of caravan (“a convoy of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and pack animals”).

More Meanings

1. (by extension, archaic) A hostelry, an inn; also (humorous), an (upscale) hotel.
2. (by extension) A place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).
3. (chiefly historical) A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see sense 3) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa.

Example Sentences

But not in sumptuous Caravansary / The adventurer idles there, / Nor satiates wonder with her pomp and wealth; […]

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai / Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, / How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp / Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.

Eight days later, after leaving the desert and riding through neatly tended villages and snow-capped mountain scenery, he arrived there, hiring himself a room in a caravanserai near the bazaar.

They stopped at the most memorable places, and at last arrived at Rome, where a princess vacated her palace for their accommodation and so many louis-d'or a-month. Rome, once the mistress, is now the caravanseray of the world.

Word Forms

• caravanserais
• caravansarai
• caravanseray
• caravansaray
• caravansary
• caravansery

Synonyms for caravanserai

Depending on context, synonyms include caravan, caravansary, khan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caravansary, khan, caravansera, caravansery, caravansarai, caravanseray.

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