caravanserai

caravanserai englannista suomeksi

1. karavanserai

0. Substantiivi

1. karavaaniseralji

2. levähdyspaikka resting place, kohtauspaikka meeting place

caravanserai englanniksi

1. (senseid) A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans ''(see (senseno))'' can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along routes in Asia and Africa.

2. (RQ:Spectator) It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate, and, smiling at the mistake of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary? (..) 'Ah, Sir,' said the dervise, a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.'

3. (RQ:Southey Thalaba)

4. (RQ:R. F. Burton Pilgrimage)

5. (RQ:Khayyam FitzGerald Rubaiyat)

6. (quote-book)

7. (quote-journal) 81 Caravanserais served caravans, but they also had a multitude of other functions. It is generally agreed that they continued the function of the ''ribats'' in Transoxania, and therefore it is taken for granted that they had military uses.

8. A place resembling a caravanserai ''((senseno))'' as being a place for resting temporarily, or a place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).

9. (RQ:Sterne Sermons)

10. (RQ:Landon Romance)

11. (quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.|publisher=Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton, Mifflin and Company(nb...)|year=1891|volume=III (Nos. 2001 to 3384)|page=617|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJPeAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA617|oclc=1417240|passage=Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when "saveall" was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.

12. (RQ:Orwell Down and Out)

13. (quote-journal)

14. (senseid) (synonym of)

15. (RQ:Woolf Three Guineas). It is a solemn sight always—a procession, like a caravanserai crossing a desert.

16. A hostelry, an inn; also , an (upscale) hotel.

17. (quote-book)|year=1838|page=56|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZReAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA56|oclc=316483069|passage=By the bye it is as well to mention, for the benefit of the inexperienced, that there are ''no Inns'' in Ireland; all are hotels, from the lowest road cabin to the splendid caravanserai, with all its appurtenances of luxury and ease.

18. (RQ:Lewis Bethel Merriday)

19. (l)