variants
or caravanserai
as in hotel
a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests
a caravansary designed specifically for self-styled cheapskates
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Recent Examples of caravansary
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
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Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caravansary
Noun
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Archer was born in Chicago July 28, 2023, and Fair and her husband were staying at a hotel nearby and were there when the surrogate, Tricia Holloway, gave birth.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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The driver dropped them off at a hotel, where a woman told the group that someone would come to take them across the border the next day.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
Noun
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Elevated, or maybe lowered: lowered to the tavern, the dungeon, the brothel.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The drunk driver managed a tavern and had served himself liberally while at work.—
Robert W. Wood,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Huang said his hostel primarily served international visitors prior to Covid, and the share of foreign guests has recovered modestly to about one-fifth of customers.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
7 May 2025
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Those spaces will likely include women-only bathrooms, changing rooms, hospital wards, hostels, prisons, sports clubs, domestic violence women’s shelters and more.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Caravansary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caravansary. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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