yurt
IPA: jˈɝt
noun
- A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).
- (historical) The natural resources and arable land over which a Cossack stanitsa had exclusive control in their territory.
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Examples of "yurt" in Sentences
- The felt tent thing in yurt is OK.
- Yurt camping is available in the park.
- It resembles a panel yurt, hence the name.
- Most of inhabitants live in yurt quarters.
- Yurt camping is available within this park.
- Indeed, this is not a yurt in the traditional sense.
- And the yurt is not of construction usually used by Kazakhs.
- The yurt is the traditional dwelling of the Mongolian nomads.
- The northeastern quarter of the yurt is reserved for the woman.
- Helped a commune of longhairs build a crazy house called a yurt.
- The park has a number of recreational amenities, including yurts.
- A big silver tricycle, a batch of Jester clothes and a large, tent-like dwelling called a yurt.
- [For the record, a yurt is a "portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia."]
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.