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SERAI

Definition: SERAI

SERAI

Noun

1. A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SERAI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

"SERAI" is a common misspelling or typo for: sari, sear, sere, Seri, serial, serif, setae.


Modern Usage: SERAI

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Je serai seule après minuit (1931)

Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore (1999)

Mon père il sera policier Quand je serai grand (1995)

Quand je serai jeune (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SERAI

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: SERAI

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SERAI": bakhtchi-serai, caravan-serai.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SERAI

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  serai

16

  je la pour serai toi

3

  je la moise serai teri

2

  bagan serai

2
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Modern Translations: SERAI

Language Translations for "SERAI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

plevicë (depot, hayloft, mow, stockyard). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сарай (seraglio), кервансарай (caravanserai, choultry), дворец (court, palace). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

karavánszeráj (caravanserai, Khan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eraisay

   

Romanian

  

caravanserai (caravan-sary, caravan-serai). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

караван-сарай (caravanserai, choultry). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

karavansko svratište, harem (harem, seraglio). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caravanserallo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

seralj (seraglio). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kervansaray (caravansary, caravanserai, Khan, seray). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сераль (seraglio), караван-сарай (caravan-serai), гарем (harem, seraglio, zenana), палац (alcazar, palace, seraglio). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tạm nghỉ qua sa mạc khách sạn lớn (caravanserai), nhà trọ lớn (caravanserai). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SERAI

Derivations

Words beginning with "SERAI": serail, serails, serais. (additional references)

Words ending with "SERAI": caravanserai. (additional references)

Words containing "SERAI": caravanserais. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SERAI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arise, raise.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-s"

-1 letter: airs, ares, arse, ears, eras, ires, rase, reis, rias, rise, sari, sear, sera, sire.

-2 letters: air, ais, are, ars, ear, era, ers, ire, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sea, sei, ser, sir, sri.

-3 letters: ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-s"
 

+1 letter: aeries, aiders, aimers, airers, airest, aivers, ariels, ariose, arisen, arises, armies, arsine, ashier, aspire, braise, caries, cerias, deairs, easier, ericas, ferias, fraise, irades, kaiser, paries, praise, rabies, raised, raiser, raises, ramies, redias, resaid, resail, sagier, sailer, satire, serail, serais, serial, sierra, spirea, striae, terais, varies, zaires.

 

+2 letters: abiders, admires, adviser, aerials, aeriest, aigrets, airiest, airless, airshed, airwise, aliners, ambries, anestri, antsier, aperies, apprise, arcsine, aridest, aristae, arrises, arrives, arsenic, arsines, artiest, artiste, artsier, ascribe, aspired, aspirer, aspires, asteria, astride, atresia, attires, bailers, baiters, barites, bearish, braised, braises, braizes, brasier, brassie, braxies, cahiers, caribes, carices, carnies, carries, cashier, claries, crazies, cristae, daikers, dairies, darbies, darkies, dashier, dearies, derails, despair, dialers, diapers, diaries, diaster, disrate, earings, earwigs, eclairs, erasing, erasion, faeries, fairest, fairies, farcies, farside, fiacres, fraises, freesia, gainers, gaiters, gassier, gisarme, glaires, gravies, hailers, hardies, harpies, harries, hastier, hegaris, hegiras, hejiras, hernias, imagers, imarets, impresa, infares, insaner, insnare, iratest, isobare, jailers, kaisers, kauries, kerrias, maestri, mailers, maimers, marines, marries, massier, mirages, misaver, mishear, misrate, misread, nailers, nastier, ovaries, paniers, paresis, parises, parries, parties, parvise, pastier, paviser, piaster, piastre, pirates, praised, praiser, praises, rabbies, raciest, radices, radixes, raggies, raiders, railers, raisers, rallies, randies, rapiers, rapines, raspier, ratines, ratites, ravines, readies, reagins, realise, realism, realist, rebaits, redials, regains, reginas, remails, remains, renails, repairs, reraise, resails, residua, retails, retains, retinas, retsina, revisal, rivages, roadies, saggier, sailers, sallier, saltier, saltire, sandier, sappier, sardine, sarkier, sassier, satires, saucier, sauries, savvier, scalier, scarier, scoriae, scrapie, seabird, seagirt, seamier, searing, sedarim, seminar, semiraw, senarii, serails, serials, seriate, seriema, seringa, shadier, shakier, shalier, sharpie, sidearm, sidebar, sidecar, sierran, sierras, skiwear, slatier, smartie, snakier, soapier, spacier, spiraea, spireas, stagier, staider, stainer, stearic, stearin, striate, tailers, tardies, tarries, tarsier, tastier, terbias, tirades, traipse, triages, upraise, uremias, varices, variers, vastier, veritas, viscera, wailers, waister, waiters, waivers, wariest, washier, waspier, wastrie, wearies, wearish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SERAI


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 52 41 49

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "SERAI"


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