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Definition: SERAI |
SERAINoun1. A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house. |
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. |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Domain | Title |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SERAI": bakhtchi-serai, caravan-serai. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
serai | 16 |
je la pour serai toi | 3 |
je la moise serai teri | 2 |
bagan serai | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 caravanserai (caravan-sary, caravan-serai). (various references) караван-сарай (caravanserai, choultry). (various references) karavansko svratište, harem (harem, seraglio). (various references) caravanserallo. (various references) seralj (seraglio). (various references) kervansaray (caravansary, caravanserai, Khan, seray). (various references) сераль (seraglio), караван-сарай (caravan-serai), гарем (harem, seraglio, zenana), палац (alcazar, palace, seraglio). (various references) tạm nghỉ qua sa mạc khách sạn lớn (caravanserai), nhà trọ lớn (caravanserai). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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