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Keriya

Keriya proper noun: synonym of Yutian.

keriya: synonym of Yutian
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Proper noun

Keriya

  1. Synonym of Yutian.
    • The desert returns after you leave Keriya, and dunes periodically threaten the road.1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China: the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306
    • A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti. We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the...2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105
    Synonyms:
    Yutian

Examples of Keriya in a sentence

  • We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya.2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105:
  • These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 329:
  • “We use piped water in Keriya (Yutian) county—it’s been like that for years, at least five or six,” a Uyghur farmer from the county’s Achchan town said, speaking on condition of anonymity.2015 February 4, Joshua Lipes, Jilil Kashgary (reporter), “More Than One Million Lack Clean Water in Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture”, in...

Synonyms of Keriya

Forms of Keriya

alternative formKeriye

Questions about Keriya

What does Keriya mean?
Keriya means synonym of Yutian.
How do you use Keriya in a sentence?
We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya.
What part of speech is Keriya?
Keriya is a proper noun.

Words near Keriya in the dictionary

  1. Keristan
  2. Keristans
  3. kerite
  4. kerites
  5. keritherapy
  6. Keriya
  7. Keriye
  8. kerjava
  9. kerjavas
  10. Kerkhoff
  11. Kerkhoffs

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