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zenana

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6 lettersPronunciation /zəˈnɑːnə/Sorted aaennzStarts with ZEnds with A0 clues
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  1. Synonym of harem (“area of house or palace for high-caste women or wives of a wealthy man; the women thus kept; the system of segregating women in this way”).

Word origin

From Hindi ज़नाना (zanānā), Urdu زنانه (zanānah), from Classical Persian زنانه (zanāna, “womanly”), from زن (zan, “woman”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman”). More at quean.

Used in a sentence

  • Depend upon it, Solomon would never have built altars to Ashtaroth and all those ladies with queer names, if there had not been trouble of some kind in his zenana, and nowhere else.
  • Yet inside the walls of the havelis and the lattice screens of the zenana, life goes on as it always did.
  • Out of the blue, the chief eunuch of the zenana appears.

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