Usually means: Inn for travelers in desert.
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  1. caravanserai: Merriam-Webster
  2. caravanserai: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caravanserai: Collins English Dictionary
  4. caravanserai: Vocabulary.com
  5. Caravanserai, caravanserai: Wordnik
  6. caravanserai: Wiktionary
  7. caravanserai: Dictionary.com
  8. Caravanserai (album), Caravanserai: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. caravanserai: Rhymezone
  10. caravanserai: FreeDictionary.org
  11. caravanserai: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. caravanserai: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. caravanserai: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. caravanserai: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. caravanserai: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See caravanserais as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (caravanserai)

noun:  (chiefly historical) A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see sense 3) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa.
noun:  (by extension) A place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).
noun:  (by extension) Synonym of caravan (“a convoy of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and pack animals”)
noun:  (by extension, archaic) A hostelry, an inn; also (humorous), an (upscale) hotel.

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