yurt
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- noun
- /jɜrt/
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yurta
- The nomadic family spent the night in their yurt, enjoying the warmth of the fire inside.
I was like, what a yurt is like, what is that, like a big tent?
- I was like, what a yurt is like, what is that, like a big tent?
- So yeah, so I checked on my floors, I checked my even my yurt couch.
Examples
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Inside the yurt was a tall man with a long mustache, seated on a reindeer hide.
Fiction book (2000) -
During our camping trip, we stayed in a traditional yurt that offered a unique experience in nature.
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As I mentioned, I was in a yurt this summer!
Blog text (27) -
What are you doing in my yurt?
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A healthy female cow of breeding stock had been brought into his yurt.
Fiction book (1990) -
Unless one moves off the grid, lives in a yurt, and grows all their own food, how sustainable is this?
Blog text (17) -
The performance took place in a small yurt, a conical tent supported by latticework.
Academic text (1993) -
A poor boy named Bold lived alone in a small yurt south of the icy vastness of the Siberian forest.
Fiction book (2000) -
One of those yurts, maybe, that come pre-designed so you can assemble them yourself in the middle of your acreage.
Fiction book (1997) -
The Court of Kanduakar sat in an enormous, multilevel yurt, a round, peaked structure made of wood-like beams and double walls of thick fabric.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
How Portable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yurt comes from an old Turkic word yurt meaning 'home' or 'homeland', used by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia such as the Mongols. So a yurt is literally a 'home' you can move, which helps explain why it is a round, portable tent for people who travel.