YURT
- a portable tent, also YURTA [n -S]
- a portable tent [n YURTA, YURTS]
- tentlike dwelling of the Mongol and Turkic peoples of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or skins
- a circular domed tent of skins or felt stretched over a collapsible lattice framework and used by pastoral peoples of inner Asia
- structure that resembles a yurt usually in size and design