Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A circular, domed, portable tent used by nomadic peoples of central Asia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the houses or huts, whether permanent or movable, of the natives of northern and central Asia. Also yourta, yourte, jurt.
Wiktionary
- n. A large, round semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and conical roof usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
Etymologies
- From Russian юрта (júrta), from a Turkic language, related to Turkish yurt, "home, homeland". (Wiktionary)
- Russian yurta, of Turkic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word meaning "dwelling place" in the sense of "homeland"; the term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like structures only in other languages.”
“Helped a commune of longhairs build a crazy house called a yurt.”
“A big silver tricycle, a batch of Jester clothes and a large, tent-like dwelling called a yurt.”
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“Inside the yurt was a pond where goldfish swam from The Times: Carol Ann Duffy's tribute to departing head of Edinburgh book festival posted by Rus Bowden at 2:49 PM”
“The yurt is a type of “Green Weefab Mini-Home” and can be customized into another kind of hand-built “Earth Sheltered House” for those on a budget.”
“Yes a yurt is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by the nomads in the steppes of Central Asia for centuries, and yes it is also a modern dwelling here in the west.”
“[For the record, a yurt is a "portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia."]”
“Here's a primer: A yurt is a circular, domed structure originally used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia and Turkey and is now used worldwide for inexpensive or temporary housing.”
“MEDVED: One was living in a Mongolian tent called a yurt with her fatherless child.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yurt’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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A Dwelling
house, apartment, condo, flat, cottage, tepee, wigwam, penthouse, cave, castle, mansion, mcmansion and 33 more...
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Helen Edmundson's list
Helen's favourite and interesting words: please add yours!
susurrus, serendipity, slither, squishy, terrapin, delectable, ticklish, barracuda, tangled, resonance, spotted, florentine and 4 more...
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Round buildings
Types of buildings that are round rather than rectangular.
yurt, tipi, hogan, wikiup, boma, teepee, tepee, round barn, lighthouse, rotunda, martello tower
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Neato Keen Words
My list of neato keen words.
fab, neato, keen, fantabulous, awesome, marvellous, hubba, yurt, kempt, effete, jumbo, italic and 2 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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exlotuseater's Words
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plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
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words that make me happy inside
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
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Man likes these words
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Tweets
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bilby Snap! The Christ Church Cathedral in my town is a yurt, most definitely. Aug 15, 2008
milosrdenstvi I've had a lot of fun comparing ugly modern church buildings to yurts. The resemblance is really quite striking. Aug 15, 2008
john Yurts! I forgot about yurts. In the early 90s I lived in yurt for a few months, in Bowdoinham Maine. Dec 10, 2006