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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Soup kitchens fed thousands of people each day in major cities throughout the empire, as did the caravansaries.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Wealthy individuals might also build caravansaries, providing shelter for travelers as an act of piety.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
On the roads, in the camps, in the caravansaries, unburied bodies were seen; and a few cities only remained, in an unaccountable manner, free.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter
