ryokan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
Definition of ryokan
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A traditional Japanese inn with communal baths and other public areas.
“Mr. Ducasse is pursuing plans for a new hotel one hour from central Tokyo, a cross between a ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn, and an auberge, a French country inn.”
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Etymology
From Japanese 旅館(りょかん) (ryokan), which is from Middle Chinese 旅館 (MC ljoX kwanH, “inn, traveller's lodge”). Compare modern Chinese 旅館／旅馆 (lǚguǎn, “hotel”), from 旅 (lǚ, “travel”) + 館／馆 (guǎn, “lodging-house”).
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