📚 Yurt, noun. 🔉 /jʊət/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A circular tent of felt or skins on a collapsible framework, used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkey. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her students will make use of the project's three on-site yurts. 2. He was greeted by dune buggies, which then took him across a lunar landscape for five hours to a collection of yurts, or Mongolian tents. 3. The movie team pitched their yurts about 1km away from the household. 4. At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles. 5. In Mongolia, the yurt's covering would normally be made from sheep hides - but the York volunteers decided on a canvas covering instead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic