noun
Meaning 1
A palace of a sultan.
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Standard Lemma guide
seraglio
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Pronunciation
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US: /səˈɹæljoʊ/
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US: /səˈɹæɡliːoʊ/
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noun
Meaning 2
A palace of a sultan.
The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
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noun
Meaning 3
A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.
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Qualifier: by figurative extension
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noun
Meaning 4
The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
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noun
Meaning 5
A brothel or place of debauchery.
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noun
Meaning 6
An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.
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noun
Meaning 7
living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: harem, hareem, serail
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Broader terms: living quarters, quarters
History
Etymology
From Italian serraglio, from Vulgar Latin *serrāculum, from a late form of Latin serāre (“lock up, close”), from sera (“lock, bolt”). The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Turkish saray (“palace”). Compare serai, serail.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сарай (saraj) — palace
- Bulgarian: харем (harem) — palace
- Catalan: serrall — palace
- Esperanto: serajlo — palace
- French: sérail — palace
- German: Serail — palace
- Hungarian: szeráj — palace
- Italian: serraglio — palace
- Japanese: 後宮 (kōkyū) — palace
- Macedonian: сарај (saraj) — palace
- Polish: seraj — palace
- Portuguese: serralho — palace
- Romanian: serai — palace
- Serbo-Croatian: са̀рај — palace
- Serbo-Croatian: sàraj — palace
- Spanish: serrallo — palace
- Swedish: seralj — palace
- Turkish: saray — palace
- Ottoman Turkish: سرای (saray) — palace