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/kɑːn/ · noun
(historical) A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages..
At each of these stations there is a hostelry which they call a khan, where travellers alight with their beasts, and outside each khan is a public watering-place and a shop at which the traveller may buy what he requires for himself and his beast.
‘Guess the name of that,’ she said, pointing to her delicate parts. The porter tried this name and that and ended by asking her to tell him and cease her slapping. ‘The khān of Abu-Mansur,’ she replied.
Use khan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Khan means (historical) A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages..
Common synonyms include khakan, caravanserai, fonduk, caravansary.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
At each of these stations there is a hostelry which they call a khan, where travellers alight with their beasts, and outside each khan is a public watering-place and a shop at which the traveller may buy what he requires for himself and his beast.
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