What's the difference between caravansary and caravanserai?

Caravansary


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.

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Caravanserai


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a happy discovery for both men, and later a proper biography, A Voyage Round John Mortimer (2007), by Valerie Grove did her subject justice, capturing some of the pleasures of the Mortimer caravanserai: the long Sunday lunches at Turville in winter, the bluebell picnics in Chiltern woods every spring; the summer idylls in that part of Italy he dubbed Chiantishire.
  • (2) The town used to house one of Syria's finest museums, a collection of Byzantine mosaics in an Ottoman caravanserai.
  • (3) Could the Eurovision caravanserai's next stop be Baku?
  • (4) They are everywhere, especially in the old city, where one finds the old forts, caravanserai, mosques and palaces of the Nawabs standing witness to a time that is fast giving way to modernity.

Words possibly related to "caravansary"

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