Definitions for yurts

yurts yurt

Spelling: [yoo rt]
IPA: /yʊərt/

Yurts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in yurts (rstuy).

Definitions for yurts

noun

  1. a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol and Turkic peoples of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or skins.

Origin of yurts

1885-90; Russian yurt Turkic; compare Turkish yurt home, fatherland, with cognates meaning “abode, dwelling” in all branches of Turkic

Examples for yurts

"We were rather surprised ourselves," yurt said complacently.

Round the walls of the yurt were ranged one or two tables and chests of drawers.

Around the yurt gathered women and children, dogs and calves.

Why should it have, when I already knew yurt so well—considered him, in fact, one of my closest friends?

Her route is well planned, yet somewhere—on the streets of Tehran, in a yurt in Turkmenistan—Lin-Liu loses her way.

Nor does the Mongol till the soil; nothing is found growing near his yurt.

yurt, after two years of living with us, still couldn't understand why we found this confusing.

Word Value for yurts
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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