caravansary
noun
(in the Middle East and North Africa) an inn, usually with a large courtyard, for the overnight accommodation of caravans.
caravansaries
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pluralof caravansary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It is most useful to imagine it as a network of “legs” on a journey, along which merchants and traders traveled via caravan with their wares, pausing to rest at caravansaries along the way.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In addition to providing shelter, caravansaries were a place for merchants to meet other traders to exchange goods as well as share and spread Islamic ideas and traditions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The town of hundreds of madrassas and caravansaries, and 100 or so mosques, had been subjected to the only fate worse than Genghis Khan’s, that fifth horseman of the apocalypse: tourism.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
If this were the Sahara, caravansaries would have stopped by its green pools for thousands of years.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
Many of the best khans or caravansaries are of royal foundation; others, like the fountains, the monuments of departed piety.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
