Definitions for zenana

zenana ze·na·na

Spelling: [zuh-nah-nuh]
IPA: /zəˈnɑ nə/

Zenana is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in zenana (aaennz).

Definitions for zenana

noun

  1. the part of the house in which the women and girls of a family are secluded.
  2. its occupants collectively.

Origin of zenana

1755-65; Hindi Persian zanāna, female, pertaining to women, adj. derivative of zan woman; cognate with Sanskrit jani woman, wife, Greek gynḗ, OCS žena, Old English cwēn woman, wife; see

Examples for zenana

Other interesting conveyances are those in which the zenana ladies travel.

His treasures and his zenana; I may even be able to secure his person.

She offered her hand tremblingly, and led Gascoigne into the zenana.

Everybody is asleep; there is no woman here to send to him in the zenana.

“Now I will tell you something of zenana visiting,” she said.

A young journalist was requested to write something about the zenana Mission.

It is reached through an opening under a block of zenana buildings.

And with this I made the under-clothing for the palace and the zenana.

But in visiting a zenana I only saw the inhabitants of that one house.

The Khan then returned to the zenana, where Lurlee Khnum met him.

Word Value for zenana
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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