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[ kar -uh -van ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈkær əˌvæn / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
any group traveling in or as if in a caravan and using a specific mode of transportation, as pack animals or motor vehicles: a caravan of trucks; a camel caravan.
a large covered vehicle for conveying passengers, goods, a sideshow, etc.; van.
Chiefly British . a house on wheels; trailer.
verb (used with object), car·a·vaned or car·a·vanned, car·a·van·ing or car·a·van·ning. to carry in or as if in a caravan: Trucks caravaned food and medical supplies to the flood's survivors.
verb (used without object), car·a·vaned or car·a·vanned, car·a·van·ing or car·a·van·ning. to travel in or as if in a caravan: They caravaned through Egypt.
Origin of caravan 1590–1600; earlier
carovan <Italian
carovana <Persian
kārwān SYNONYMS FOR caravan 1 parade, procession, train, cavalcade, band.
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OTHER WORDS FROM caravan car·a·van·ist, noun Words nearby caravan carapace, carat, Caratacus, Caratinga, Caravaggio, caravan , caravanner, caravansary, caravanserai, caravel, caraway
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Example sentences from the Web for caravan After checking in, you will make your way to each designated checkpoint, as part of a caravan of vehicles.
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A caravan of trams stuck in the middle of the medieval city waited in line for the protest to end.
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I met a girl on holiday in a caravan park—which you guys call a trailer park—and she was from Northern Ireland.
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The caravan was carrying humanitarian aid, Russian authorities said.
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The progress of the caravan of SUVs and buses ferrying the embassy staff out to Tunisia was monitored in real-time in Washington.
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A caravan from Windsor, Ontario across the river recently delivered a couple of hundred gallons to needy customers.
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Sabbata however traveled not by water, but by land, by way of Hebron and Gaza, probably joining a caravan through the desert.
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Then I visited Hlaje Tsering with the corner pillars of my caravan .
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Further on we caught up with a caravan of travelling merchants with their camels and pack-horses.
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Somehow, in spite of the reception given the caravan , he was uneasy.
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Perhaps no caravan had more success than ours during the first month of the journey.
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British Dictionary definitions for caravan noun a large enclosed vehicle capable of being pulled by a car or lorry and equipped to be lived in US and Canadian name: trailer (as modifier ) a caravan site (esp in some parts of Asia and Africa) a company of traders or other travellers journeying together, often with a train of camels, through the desert
a group of wagons, pack mules, camels, etc, esp travelling in single file
a large covered vehicle, esp a gaily coloured one used by Romany Gypsies, circuses, etc
verb -vans , -vanning or -vanned (intr) British to travel or have a holiday in a caravan
Derived forms of caravan caravanning , noun Word Origin for caravan C16: from Italian caravana, from Persian kārwān
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Words related to caravan cavalcade, convoy, procession, expedition, band, train, troop, safari, campers