Definitions for Yurt

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Spelling: [yoo rt]
IPA: /yʊərt/

Yurt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Yurt (rtuy).

Definitions for Yurt

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 Yurt

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

Examples for Yurt

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Word Value for Yurt
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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