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# caravanserai

«caravanserai» in Mova's school dictionary: **An inn with a big courtyard on old trade routes in Asia…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a caravanserai, caravanserais)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An inn with a big courtyard on old trade routes in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, where travellers and their camels or horses could rest for the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#m1)

2) A group of people travelling together (rare, literary). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons on the Silk Road, merchants with camel caravans stopped at caravanserais to sleep, trade, water animals and stay safe from robbers. It tells the reader the story is set long ago on desert trade routes. Phrases: «stop at a caravanserai».

### examples

- The merchants rested at a caravanserai on the Silk Road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#x1)
- Camels drank water in the caravanserai courtyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#x2)
- We saw the ruins of a caravanserai in Turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#x3)
- A caravanserai had rooms around a big square yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#x4)
- Traders swapped silk and spices at the caravanserai. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#x5)
- The storyteller described a busy caravanserai at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/#x6)

### note

Countable: a caravanserai, caravanserais (also spelt caravansary). Said «kara-VAN-suh-rye». It comes from Persian: caravan (a group of travellers) + sarai (palace or inn). Not related to the British meaning of «caravan» (a home on wheels).

### In the corpora

- [Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caravanserai» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravanserai/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.