Definition of caravan in English:

caravan

noun ˈkarəvankarəˈvanˈkɛrəˌvæn

1British A vehicle equipped for living in, typically towed by a car and used for holidays.
they spent a fishing holiday in a caravan
North American term trailer
as modifier a caravan holiday
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of the quaint cottages, holiday chalets and holiday caravans are now occupied right through the year, either by their owners or by people who hire them for an ‘out-of-season break’.
- We'll be staying in a caravan at Summer Fields Holiday Village.
- The couple still managed to enjoy their holiday in their battered caravan but are now waiting to have the side replaced, at a cost of some £2,000.
- When I was a lad we always had a two week holiday with our caravan.
- To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
- In essence, therefore, what the appellants provide their customers with is a place to keep their caravans for holiday use and not permanent residential use.
- Meanwhile, a picture of Cayton Bay, taken at about the same time, shows line after line of caravans as the seaside holiday enjoyed its heyday.
- Sitting relaxed in his small study, planning a family caravan holiday in Northumberland, he looks now to be doing pretty well.
- THE 30,000 visitors who poured into Manchester's G-Mex centre for the caravan and holiday home show proved caravans have a big future.
- The area is ideal for people who want a safe caravan holiday.
- A bid to use more land at a Walton holiday park to site caravans on has been given the thumbs-down by town councillors after protests from nearby residents.
- More than 200 exhibitors will be offering an unrivalled selection of the very latest models of caravans, motorhomes, holiday homes and camping equipment.
- MOST OF my childhood holidays were spent in caravans.
- The Windermere site features 300 touring pitches and more than 70 caravan holiday homes, as well as facilities for backpackers.
- It's one of those great British paradoxes: a nation is fascinated by caravans, holidays and mobility, yet seemingly repelled by those for whom this way of life is the norm - gypsies and travellers.
- While caravan holidays were once considered to be a cheap and cheerful option, customers now have the option of luxury lodges.
- When we went for a caravan holiday in France I put in some overtime to help pay for it.
- It was after that two-week family holiday in their caravan, which Rose adored, that Stephen and Susan were told the terrible news that nothing more could be done.
- It is also estimated that some one-in-three adults have been camping or taken a caravan holiday at some time.
- Now with her free time she has one holiday planned and intends to go on regular holidays in a new caravan.
Synonyms
mobile home, camper, caravanette
North American trailer
informal van
British trademark Dormobile
1. 1.1 A covered horse-drawn wagon.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Burning arrows streamed over the trees, a few finding marks in hardened leather armour, or our caravan wagons.
  We rode in the woods where gypsies lived in bright caravans.
  But in our case, one must not only build a caravan of gypsy wagons with their own two hands - but make an entire sideshow carnival!
  The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
  With his dog and his young friends he'd set out in his vardo - a horse-drawn gypsy caravan - and end up in the most wonderful, strange and exciting places.
  Instead of just showing your readers cosy pictures of gypsy caravans why not show a few images of the other side of the coin - the litter and damage that is left behind.
  She kept a sharp lookout for the rest of their missing wagon train caravan.
  He toyed with the idea of a gypsy caravan until he noticed that the proportions of the door were perfect to make it into a stable - complete with horse, of course.
  She borrowed some money to buy a horse-drawn caravan and commenced a two-year journey northwards.
  We had some difficulty getting anywhere near the town centre because this is May Fair week and the centre is filled with funfair machines, gypsy caravans and stalls selling food stuff that ought to be illegal.
  Not only did the company build ballet audiences wherever it went, it picked up company members along the way, like a gypsy caravan.
  Peter started building gypsy caravans as a boy and though now in his sixties he still makes, repairs and paints them.
  As late as the 1930s, the area around the portes d' Italie, Choisy and Ivry was a no-man's land dotted by Gypsy caravans and shacks.
  He was quite hungry anyway, so he followed the woman outside into the centre of the ring of caravans where the gypsies were all seated.
  The case before him concerned refusals of permission for gypsies to site caravans in the Green Belt.
  Henley Compact Offices are quirky sheds with curved roofs redolent of gypsy caravans.
  After a few more hours of walking, the pair saw the Gypsy caravan train in the distance, looking like a beige blur among all the white.
  He is outraged that his blueprint for a gypsy site with seven caravans, a stable and a toilet block on land at Out Moss Lane has been thrown out.
  With another lottery grant Kyle purchased the equipment she had been renting, and a big black light-proof canvas tent which she stretches over benders in the shape of a gypsy caravan.
  The remaining child, the outcast, sat in the very corner of the caravan wagon.
  Synonyms
  wagon, covered cart, van
2. 1.2North American A covered lorry.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our little covered caravan was dwarfed by these new surroundings.
  At the end of the road stood a canvas covered caravan and beside it a tiny theatre, a miniature stage with a black curtain backdrop.
  First of all you need a big open space to set up the tent, caravans and any animal pens.
  This tiny caravan, organised with military precision, is home to scores of costumes, with an outfit for every cog in the wheel that drives the circus operation.
2historical A group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, travelling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
Example sentencesExamples
- In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment.
- Over this 1,800-mile trail came yearly caravans carrying not only tools, seeds, and other worldly goods, but also news of the outside world.
- Slave and ivory caravans that passed through the region as late as the second half of the 19th century, may also have provided a gruesome supply of corpses.
- Well-established villages that also served as trading centers for caravans, such as Kologelo and Mloka, had by then been abandoned.
- It is believed that the dogs got their name from travelling with caravans of traders.
- For another, the route the caravans took on their way to the slave ships passed through the capital, allowing Afonso to tax and regulate the trade.
- His idea was to raid the pilgrim caravans at sea and in their ports, and even possibly to raid Mecca itself.
- Djibouti, which has a good natural harbor and ready access to the Ethiopian highlands, attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa as well as Somali settlers from the south.
- One can still see camel caravans head to the desert and bring back slabs of salt, a round-trip that would last almost a month, crossing the unforgiving Sahara.
- We had been told that the Bedou could live on this diet for many days as they plodded across the desert with their caravans of laden dromedaries.
- Word of the venture spread among the miners, who at first could not fathom camels lumbering into their camps, but Laumeister made the caravans a familiar sight.
- With the downfall of the Mughal Empire in the mid 1700s, commerce shifted to the sea ports, and the age of camel caravans drew to a close.
- As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans.
- Camel caravans also bring grain that is used to make bread.
- Irineo has driven llama caravans since he was 12, save for two or three years spent in school, and would not do anything else.
- We suffer hyperthermia in the Sahara if we don't have shelter from the heat, and hypothermia in the Arctic if we don't have boatloads of clothing and caravans of food.
- Attacks on trading caravans and outposts had dropped radically, as well as the raids on the outlying farmsteads and towns of the region.
- Thieving guilds and merchant caravans thrive across Valencia, bringing in great profits to our clan, however we do it admit it is unfortunate that we must resort to such measures to make a living.
- They ended Tuareg trade activities, including the collection of tariffs and the protection services for camel caravans crossing the Sahara.
- The caravan of desert travelers came over the ridges of sand, marching ceaselessly under the blazing yellow sun.
1. 2.1 Any large group of people, typically with vehicles or animals, travelling together in single file.
  a caravan of cars and trucks
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was to be found in the caravan of news vans that followed the Harrison tour.
  Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine.
  You have been covering the governor's bus caravan with nearly 200 reporters.
  Along the ground a caravan of ground crew and volunteers zips along to meet the group at the next rest stop.
  The candidates are neck and neck in the polls, and often seem to be running for president of Ohio, as their bus caravans nearly cross each other's paths.
  The entire entourage was traveling across a long dirt road, like a caravan, with animals and performers and equipment and everything in tow.
  It had been threatening to pour for the two days before and day since the departure of the small caravan of people.
  I give the car a bit more gas, accelerate past a caravan of station wagons.
  He had led a caravan of three automobiles to buy food for the troops when he came upon a band of Villistas.
  What they're going to do about it: First, they're going to drive very slowly to Ottawa in a caravan involving dozens of cars.
  Festivities are marked by caravans of automobiles flying flags and blaring horns.
  You didn't join a caravan of vehicles fleeing down after the chemical attack at the Mall of America, trying to make Fargo by nightfall.
  Meanwhile, rescue workers continue to meet at the center every day at 6 a.m. to pile into a caravan of pickup trucks.
  They organized bus caravans Aug. 31 to take the arrivals to Metairie, 16 miles away, where a food and water distribution center had been set up.
  The caravan of RV's trucked down Orcas and invaded the quiet cove on East Sound bay where the resort is nestled.
  He's leaving a caravan of buses bringing 600 New Orleans buses back to the city.
  In 2003, Funny Cide brought his owners to the big track in their caravan of yellow school buses.
  These new suffragists took to the streets, organizing mass parades, automobile caravans, and soapbox speaking.
  As well, a caravan of vehicles had driven slowly towards Toronto from both eastern and western Ontario, clogging traffic on Highway 401.
  He crossed into southern Iraq from Kuwait about midday in a caravan of sport utility vehicles accompanied by Iraqi police and national guardsmen.
  Synonyms
  convoy, procession, column, train, cavalcade, fleet, cortège, company, troop, band, group, assemblage

Origin

Late 15th century (in sense 2): from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense 'covered horse-drawn wagon' dates from the early 19th century.

The first use of caravan was for a group of people travelling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa. The word comes from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense ‘covered horse-drawn wagon’ dates from the early 19th century; during this period it also described a third class ‘covered carriage’ on a railway. A caravanserai (late 16th century) is from Persian kārwānsarāy, literally a ‘caravan palace’: the word is either the same as the early sense of caravan or describes an inn with a central courtyard for travellers. Van (early 19th century) is a shortening of caravan, to which the word also sometimes refers. The earlier van (early 17th century), ‘the foremost part of a group of people’, found as part of the phrase in the van of, is also an abbreviated form, from vanguard (Late Middle English), whose first part was from Old French avant ‘before’ (compare vamp). The workman's white van is such a familiar sight that white van man has recently entered the language to mean an aggressive male van driver, or more widely an ordinary working man with forthright views.

Definition of caravan in US English:

caravan

nounˈkɛrəˌvænˈkerəˌvan

1British A vehicle equipped for living in, typically a trailer towed by a car and used when traveling for recreation.
Example sentencesExamples
- The area is ideal for people who want a safe caravan holiday.
- Now with her free time she has one holiday planned and intends to go on regular holidays in a new caravan.
- Meanwhile, a picture of Cayton Bay, taken at about the same time, shows line after line of caravans as the seaside holiday enjoyed its heyday.
- Many of the quaint cottages, holiday chalets and holiday caravans are now occupied right through the year, either by their owners or by people who hire them for an ‘out-of-season break’.
- Sitting relaxed in his small study, planning a family caravan holiday in Northumberland, he looks now to be doing pretty well.
- The Windermere site features 300 touring pitches and more than 70 caravan holiday homes, as well as facilities for backpackers.
- When we went for a caravan holiday in France I put in some overtime to help pay for it.
- When I was a lad we always had a two week holiday with our caravan.
- To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
- More than 200 exhibitors will be offering an unrivalled selection of the very latest models of caravans, motorhomes, holiday homes and camping equipment.
- It was after that two-week family holiday in their caravan, which Rose adored, that Stephen and Susan were told the terrible news that nothing more could be done.
- We'll be staying in a caravan at Summer Fields Holiday Village.
- MOST OF my childhood holidays were spent in caravans.
- In essence, therefore, what the appellants provide their customers with is a place to keep their caravans for holiday use and not permanent residential use.
- The couple still managed to enjoy their holiday in their battered caravan but are now waiting to have the side replaced, at a cost of some £2,000.
- It's one of those great British paradoxes: a nation is fascinated by caravans, holidays and mobility, yet seemingly repelled by those for whom this way of life is the norm - gypsies and travellers.
- A bid to use more land at a Walton holiday park to site caravans on has been given the thumbs-down by town councillors after protests from nearby residents.
- While caravan holidays were once considered to be a cheap and cheerful option, customers now have the option of luxury lodges.
- It is also estimated that some one-in-three adults have been camping or taken a caravan holiday at some time.
- THE 30,000 visitors who poured into Manchester's G-Mex centre for the caravan and holiday home show proved caravans have a big future.
Synonyms
mobile home, camper, caravanette
1. 1.1 A covered horse-drawn wagon.
  Example sentencesExamples
  We rode in the woods where gypsies lived in bright caravans.
  Instead of just showing your readers cosy pictures of gypsy caravans why not show a few images of the other side of the coin - the litter and damage that is left behind.
  Not only did the company build ballet audiences wherever it went, it picked up company members along the way, like a gypsy caravan.
  With another lottery grant Kyle purchased the equipment she had been renting, and a big black light-proof canvas tent which she stretches over benders in the shape of a gypsy caravan.
  But in our case, one must not only build a caravan of gypsy wagons with their own two hands - but make an entire sideshow carnival!
  The remaining child, the outcast, sat in the very corner of the caravan wagon.
  Peter started building gypsy caravans as a boy and though now in his sixties he still makes, repairs and paints them.
  Henley Compact Offices are quirky sheds with curved roofs redolent of gypsy caravans.
  We had some difficulty getting anywhere near the town centre because this is May Fair week and the centre is filled with funfair machines, gypsy caravans and stalls selling food stuff that ought to be illegal.
  After a few more hours of walking, the pair saw the Gypsy caravan train in the distance, looking like a beige blur among all the white.
  She borrowed some money to buy a horse-drawn caravan and commenced a two-year journey northwards.
  She kept a sharp lookout for the rest of their missing wagon train caravan.
  He toyed with the idea of a gypsy caravan until he noticed that the proportions of the door were perfect to make it into a stable - complete with horse, of course.
  He was quite hungry anyway, so he followed the woman outside into the centre of the ring of caravans where the gypsies were all seated.
  The case before him concerned refusals of permission for gypsies to site caravans in the Green Belt.
  As late as the 1930s, the area around the portes d' Italie, Choisy and Ivry was a no-man's land dotted by Gypsy caravans and shacks.
  Burning arrows streamed over the trees, a few finding marks in hardened leather armour, or our caravan wagons.
  The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
  He is outraged that his blueprint for a gypsy site with seven caravans, a stable and a toilet block on land at Out Moss Lane has been thrown out.
  With his dog and his young friends he'd set out in his vardo - a horse-drawn gypsy caravan - and end up in the most wonderful, strange and exciting places.
  Synonyms
  wagon, covered cart, van
2. 1.2North American A covered truck; a van.
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the end of the road stood a canvas covered caravan and beside it a tiny theatre, a miniature stage with a black curtain backdrop.
  First of all you need a big open space to set up the tent, caravans and any animal pens.
  This tiny caravan, organised with military precision, is home to scores of costumes, with an outfit for every cog in the wheel that drives the circus operation.
  Our little covered caravan was dwarfed by these new surroundings.
2historical A group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
Example sentencesExamples
- Camel caravans also bring grain that is used to make bread.
- We suffer hyperthermia in the Sahara if we don't have shelter from the heat, and hypothermia in the Arctic if we don't have boatloads of clothing and caravans of food.
- Slave and ivory caravans that passed through the region as late as the second half of the 19th century, may also have provided a gruesome supply of corpses.
- The caravan of desert travelers came over the ridges of sand, marching ceaselessly under the blazing yellow sun.
- Irineo has driven llama caravans since he was 12, save for two or three years spent in school, and would not do anything else.
- It is believed that the dogs got their name from travelling with caravans of traders.
- For another, the route the caravans took on their way to the slave ships passed through the capital, allowing Afonso to tax and regulate the trade.
- Djibouti, which has a good natural harbor and ready access to the Ethiopian highlands, attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa as well as Somali settlers from the south.
- They ended Tuareg trade activities, including the collection of tariffs and the protection services for camel caravans crossing the Sahara.
- As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans.
- Over this 1,800-mile trail came yearly caravans carrying not only tools, seeds, and other worldly goods, but also news of the outside world.
- We had been told that the Bedou could live on this diet for many days as they plodded across the desert with their caravans of laden dromedaries.
- Thieving guilds and merchant caravans thrive across Valencia, bringing in great profits to our clan, however we do it admit it is unfortunate that we must resort to such measures to make a living.
- In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment.
- Attacks on trading caravans and outposts had dropped radically, as well as the raids on the outlying farmsteads and towns of the region.
- His idea was to raid the pilgrim caravans at sea and in their ports, and even possibly to raid Mecca itself.
- With the downfall of the Mughal Empire in the mid 1700s, commerce shifted to the sea ports, and the age of camel caravans drew to a close.
- One can still see camel caravans head to the desert and bring back slabs of salt, a round-trip that would last almost a month, crossing the unforgiving Sahara.
- Well-established villages that also served as trading centers for caravans, such as Kologelo and Mloka, had by then been abandoned.
- Word of the venture spread among the miners, who at first could not fathom camels lumbering into their camps, but Laumeister made the caravans a familiar sight.
1. 2.1 Any large group of people, typically with vehicles or animals, traveling together in single file.
  a caravan of cars and trucks
  Example sentencesExamples
  The candidates are neck and neck in the polls, and often seem to be running for president of Ohio, as their bus caravans nearly cross each other's paths.
  The entire entourage was traveling across a long dirt road, like a caravan, with animals and performers and equipment and everything in tow.
  He had led a caravan of three automobiles to buy food for the troops when he came upon a band of Villistas.
  What they're going to do about it: First, they're going to drive very slowly to Ottawa in a caravan involving dozens of cars.
  Festivities are marked by caravans of automobiles flying flags and blaring horns.
  In 2003, Funny Cide brought his owners to the big track in their caravan of yellow school buses.
  Along the ground a caravan of ground crew and volunteers zips along to meet the group at the next rest stop.
  They organized bus caravans Aug. 31 to take the arrivals to Metairie, 16 miles away, where a food and water distribution center had been set up.
  The caravan of RV's trucked down Orcas and invaded the quiet cove on East Sound bay where the resort is nestled.
  Meanwhile, rescue workers continue to meet at the center every day at 6 a.m. to pile into a caravan of pickup trucks.
  I give the car a bit more gas, accelerate past a caravan of station wagons.
  Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine.
  You have been covering the governor's bus caravan with nearly 200 reporters.
  As well, a caravan of vehicles had driven slowly towards Toronto from both eastern and western Ontario, clogging traffic on Highway 401.
  These new suffragists took to the streets, organizing mass parades, automobile caravans, and soapbox speaking.
  It had been threatening to pour for the two days before and day since the departure of the small caravan of people.
  It was to be found in the caravan of news vans that followed the Harrison tour.
  You didn't join a caravan of vehicles fleeing down after the chemical attack at the Mall of America, trying to make Fargo by nightfall.
  He's leaving a caravan of buses bringing 600 New Orleans buses back to the city.
  He crossed into southern Iraq from Kuwait about midday in a caravan of sport utility vehicles accompanied by Iraqi police and national guardsmen.
  Synonyms
  convoy, procession, column, train, cavalcade, fleet, cortège, company, troop, band, group, assemblage

Origin

Late 15th century (in caravan (sense 2)): from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense ‘covered horse-drawn wagon’ dates from the early 19th century.

单词	caravan
释义	Definition of caravan in English: caravan noun ˈkarəvankarəˈvanˈkɛrəˌvæn 1British A vehicle equipped for living in, typically towed by a car and used for holidays. they spent a fishing holiday in a caravan North American term trailer as modifier a caravan holiday Example sentencesExamples Many of the quaint cottages, holiday chalets and holiday caravans are now occupied right through the year, either by their owners or by people who hire them for an ‘out-of-season break’. We'll be staying in a caravan at Summer Fields Holiday Village. The couple still managed to enjoy their holiday in their battered caravan but are now waiting to have the side replaced, at a cost of some £2,000. When I was a lad we always had a two week holiday with our caravan. To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble. In essence, therefore, what the appellants provide their customers with is a place to keep their caravans for holiday use and not permanent residential use. Meanwhile, a picture of Cayton Bay, taken at about the same time, shows line after line of caravans as the seaside holiday enjoyed its heyday. Sitting relaxed in his small study, planning a family caravan holiday in Northumberland, he looks now to be doing pretty well. THE 30,000 visitors who poured into Manchester's G-Mex centre for the caravan and holiday home show proved caravans have a big future. The area is ideal for people who want a safe caravan holiday. A bid to use more land at a Walton holiday park to site caravans on has been given the thumbs-down by town councillors after protests from nearby residents. More than 200 exhibitors will be offering an unrivalled selection of the very latest models of caravans, motorhomes, holiday homes and camping equipment. MOST OF my childhood holidays were spent in caravans. The Windermere site features 300 touring pitches and more than 70 caravan holiday homes, as well as facilities for backpackers. It's one of those great British paradoxes: a nation is fascinated by caravans, holidays and mobility, yet seemingly repelled by those for whom this way of life is the norm - gypsies and travellers. While caravan holidays were once considered to be a cheap and cheerful option, customers now have the option of luxury lodges. When we went for a caravan holiday in France I put in some overtime to help pay for it. It was after that two-week family holiday in their caravan, which Rose adored, that Stephen and Susan were told the terrible news that nothing more could be done. It is also estimated that some one-in-three adults have been camping or taken a caravan holiday at some time. Now with her free time she has one holiday planned and intends to go on regular holidays in a new caravan. Synonyms mobile home, camper, caravanette North American trailer informal van British trademark Dormobile 1.1 A covered horse-drawn wagon. Example sentencesExamples Burning arrows streamed over the trees, a few finding marks in hardened leather armour, or our caravan wagons. We rode in the woods where gypsies lived in bright caravans. But in our case, one must not only build a caravan of gypsy wagons with their own two hands - but make an entire sideshow carnival! The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan. With his dog and his young friends he'd set out in his vardo - a horse-drawn gypsy caravan - and end up in the most wonderful, strange and exciting places. Instead of just showing your readers cosy pictures of gypsy caravans why not show a few images of the other side of the coin - the litter and damage that is left behind. She kept a sharp lookout for the rest of their missing wagon train caravan. He toyed with the idea of a gypsy caravan until he noticed that the proportions of the door were perfect to make it into a stable - complete with horse, of course. She borrowed some money to buy a horse-drawn caravan and commenced a two-year journey northwards. We had some difficulty getting anywhere near the town centre because this is May Fair week and the centre is filled with funfair machines, gypsy caravans and stalls selling food stuff that ought to be illegal. Not only did the company build ballet audiences wherever it went, it picked up company members along the way, like a gypsy caravan. Peter started building gypsy caravans as a boy and though now in his sixties he still makes, repairs and paints them. As late as the 1930s, the area around the portes d' Italie, Choisy and Ivry was a no-man's land dotted by Gypsy caravans and shacks. He was quite hungry anyway, so he followed the woman outside into the centre of the ring of caravans where the gypsies were all seated. The case before him concerned refusals of permission for gypsies to site caravans in the Green Belt. Henley Compact Offices are quirky sheds with curved roofs redolent of gypsy caravans. After a few more hours of walking, the pair saw the Gypsy caravan train in the distance, looking like a beige blur among all the white. He is outraged that his blueprint for a gypsy site with seven caravans, a stable and a toilet block on land at Out Moss Lane has been thrown out. With another lottery grant Kyle purchased the equipment she had been renting, and a big black light-proof canvas tent which she stretches over benders in the shape of a gypsy caravan. The remaining child, the outcast, sat in the very corner of the caravan wagon. Synonyms wagon, covered cart, van 1.2North American A covered lorry. Example sentencesExamples Our little covered caravan was dwarfed by these new surroundings. At the end of the road stood a canvas covered caravan and beside it a tiny theatre, a miniature stage with a black curtain backdrop. First of all you need a big open space to set up the tent, caravans and any animal pens. This tiny caravan, organised with military precision, is home to scores of costumes, with an outfit for every cog in the wheel that drives the circus operation. 2historical A group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, travelling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa. Example sentencesExamples In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment. Over this 1,800-mile trail came yearly caravans carrying not only tools, seeds, and other worldly goods, but also news of the outside world. Slave and ivory caravans that passed through the region as late as the second half of the 19th century, may also have provided a gruesome supply of corpses. Well-established villages that also served as trading centers for caravans, such as Kologelo and Mloka, had by then been abandoned. It is believed that the dogs got their name from travelling with caravans of traders. For another, the route the caravans took on their way to the slave ships passed through the capital, allowing Afonso to tax and regulate the trade. His idea was to raid the pilgrim caravans at sea and in their ports, and even possibly to raid Mecca itself. Djibouti, which has a good natural harbor and ready access to the Ethiopian highlands, attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa as well as Somali settlers from the south. One can still see camel caravans head to the desert and bring back slabs of salt, a round-trip that would last almost a month, crossing the unforgiving Sahara. We had been told that the Bedou could live on this diet for many days as they plodded across the desert with their caravans of laden dromedaries. Word of the venture spread among the miners, who at first could not fathom camels lumbering into their camps, but Laumeister made the caravans a familiar sight. With the downfall of the Mughal Empire in the mid 1700s, commerce shifted to the sea ports, and the age of camel caravans drew to a close. As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans. Camel caravans also bring grain that is used to make bread. Irineo has driven llama caravans since he was 12, save for two or three years spent in school, and would not do anything else. We suffer hyperthermia in the Sahara if we don't have shelter from the heat, and hypothermia in the Arctic if we don't have boatloads of clothing and caravans of food. Attacks on trading caravans and outposts had dropped radically, as well as the raids on the outlying farmsteads and towns of the region. Thieving guilds and merchant caravans thrive across Valencia, bringing in great profits to our clan, however we do it admit it is unfortunate that we must resort to such measures to make a living. They ended Tuareg trade activities, including the collection of tariffs and the protection services for camel caravans crossing the Sahara. The caravan of desert travelers came over the ridges of sand, marching ceaselessly under the blazing yellow sun. 2.1 Any large group of people, typically with vehicles or animals, travelling together in single file. a caravan of cars and trucks Example sentencesExamples It was to be found in the caravan of news vans that followed the Harrison tour. Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine. You have been covering the governor's bus caravan with nearly 200 reporters. Along the ground a caravan of ground crew and volunteers zips along to meet the group at the next rest stop. The candidates are neck and neck in the polls, and often seem to be running for president of Ohio, as their bus caravans nearly cross each other's paths. The entire entourage was traveling across a long dirt road, like a caravan, with animals and performers and equipment and everything in tow. It had been threatening to pour for the two days before and day since the departure of the small caravan of people. I give the car a bit more gas, accelerate past a caravan of station wagons. He had led a caravan of three automobiles to buy food for the troops when he came upon a band of Villistas. What they're going to do about it: First, they're going to drive very slowly to Ottawa in a caravan involving dozens of cars. Festivities are marked by caravans of automobiles flying flags and blaring horns. You didn't join a caravan of vehicles fleeing down after the chemical attack at the Mall of America, trying to make Fargo by nightfall. Meanwhile, rescue workers continue to meet at the center every day at 6 a.m. to pile into a caravan of pickup trucks. They organized bus caravans Aug. 31 to take the arrivals to Metairie, 16 miles away, where a food and water distribution center had been set up. The caravan of RV's trucked down Orcas and invaded the quiet cove on East Sound bay where the resort is nestled. He's leaving a caravan of buses bringing 600 New Orleans buses back to the city. In 2003, Funny Cide brought his owners to the big track in their caravan of yellow school buses. These new suffragists took to the streets, organizing mass parades, automobile caravans, and soapbox speaking. As well, a caravan of vehicles had driven slowly towards Toronto from both eastern and western Ontario, clogging traffic on Highway 401. He crossed into southern Iraq from Kuwait about midday in a caravan of sport utility vehicles accompanied by Iraqi police and national guardsmen. Synonyms convoy, procession, column, train, cavalcade, fleet, cortège, company, troop, band, group, assemblage Origin Late 15th century (in sense 2): from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense 'covered horse-drawn wagon' dates from the early 19th century. The first use of caravan was for a group of people travelling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa. The word comes from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense ‘covered horse-drawn wagon’ dates from the early 19th century; during this period it also described a third class ‘covered carriage’ on a railway. A caravanserai (late 16th century) is from Persian kārwānsarāy, literally a ‘caravan palace’: the word is either the same as the early sense of caravan or describes an inn with a central courtyard for travellers. Van (early 19th century) is a shortening of caravan, to which the word also sometimes refers. The earlier van (early 17th century), ‘the foremost part of a group of people’, found as part of the phrase in the van of, is also an abbreviated form, from vanguard (Late Middle English), whose first part was from Old French avant ‘before’ (compare vamp). The workman's white van is such a familiar sight that white van man has recently entered the language to mean an aggressive male van driver, or more widely an ordinary working man with forthright views. Definition of caravan in US English: caravan nounˈkɛrəˌvænˈkerəˌvan 1British A vehicle equipped for living in, typically a trailer towed by a car and used when traveling for recreation. Example sentencesExamples The area is ideal for people who want a safe caravan holiday. Now with her free time she has one holiday planned and intends to go on regular holidays in a new caravan. Meanwhile, a picture of Cayton Bay, taken at about the same time, shows line after line of caravans as the seaside holiday enjoyed its heyday. Many of the quaint cottages, holiday chalets and holiday caravans are now occupied right through the year, either by their owners or by people who hire them for an ‘out-of-season break’. Sitting relaxed in his small study, planning a family caravan holiday in Northumberland, he looks now to be doing pretty well. The Windermere site features 300 touring pitches and more than 70 caravan holiday homes, as well as facilities for backpackers. When we went for a caravan holiday in France I put in some overtime to help pay for it. When I was a lad we always had a two week holiday with our caravan. To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble. More than 200 exhibitors will be offering an unrivalled selection of the very latest models of caravans, motorhomes, holiday homes and camping equipment. It was after that two-week family holiday in their caravan, which Rose adored, that Stephen and Susan were told the terrible news that nothing more could be done. We'll be staying in a caravan at Summer Fields Holiday Village. MOST OF my childhood holidays were spent in caravans. In essence, therefore, what the appellants provide their customers with is a place to keep their caravans for holiday use and not permanent residential use. The couple still managed to enjoy their holiday in their battered caravan but are now waiting to have the side replaced, at a cost of some £2,000. It's one of those great British paradoxes: a nation is fascinated by caravans, holidays and mobility, yet seemingly repelled by those for whom this way of life is the norm - gypsies and travellers. A bid to use more land at a Walton holiday park to site caravans on has been given the thumbs-down by town councillors after protests from nearby residents. While caravan holidays were once considered to be a cheap and cheerful option, customers now have the option of luxury lodges. It is also estimated that some one-in-three adults have been camping or taken a caravan holiday at some time. THE 30,000 visitors who poured into Manchester's G-Mex centre for the caravan and holiday home show proved caravans have a big future. Synonyms mobile home, camper, caravanette 1.1 A covered horse-drawn wagon. Example sentencesExamples We rode in the woods where gypsies lived in bright caravans. Instead of just showing your readers cosy pictures of gypsy caravans why not show a few images of the other side of the coin - the litter and damage that is left behind. Not only did the company build ballet audiences wherever it went, it picked up company members along the way, like a gypsy caravan. With another lottery grant Kyle purchased the equipment she had been renting, and a big black light-proof canvas tent which she stretches over benders in the shape of a gypsy caravan. But in our case, one must not only build a caravan of gypsy wagons with their own two hands - but make an entire sideshow carnival! The remaining child, the outcast, sat in the very corner of the caravan wagon. Peter started building gypsy caravans as a boy and though now in his sixties he still makes, repairs and paints them. Henley Compact Offices are quirky sheds with curved roofs redolent of gypsy caravans. We had some difficulty getting anywhere near the town centre because this is May Fair week and the centre is filled with funfair machines, gypsy caravans and stalls selling food stuff that ought to be illegal. After a few more hours of walking, the pair saw the Gypsy caravan train in the distance, looking like a beige blur among all the white. She borrowed some money to buy a horse-drawn caravan and commenced a two-year journey northwards. She kept a sharp lookout for the rest of their missing wagon train caravan. He toyed with the idea of a gypsy caravan until he noticed that the proportions of the door were perfect to make it into a stable - complete with horse, of course. He was quite hungry anyway, so he followed the woman outside into the centre of the ring of caravans where the gypsies were all seated. The case before him concerned refusals of permission for gypsies to site caravans in the Green Belt. As late as the 1930s, the area around the portes d' Italie, Choisy and Ivry was a no-man's land dotted by Gypsy caravans and shacks. Burning arrows streamed over the trees, a few finding marks in hardened leather armour, or our caravan wagons. The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan. He is outraged that his blueprint for a gypsy site with seven caravans, a stable and a toilet block on land at Out Moss Lane has been thrown out. With his dog and his young friends he'd set out in his vardo - a horse-drawn gypsy caravan - and end up in the most wonderful, strange and exciting places. Synonyms wagon, covered cart, van 1.2North American A covered truck; a van. Example sentencesExamples At the end of the road stood a canvas covered caravan and beside it a tiny theatre, a miniature stage with a black curtain backdrop. First of all you need a big open space to set up the tent, caravans and any animal pens. This tiny caravan, organised with military precision, is home to scores of costumes, with an outfit for every cog in the wheel that drives the circus operation. Our little covered caravan was dwarfed by these new surroundings. 2historical A group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa. Example sentencesExamples Camel caravans also bring grain that is used to make bread. We suffer hyperthermia in the Sahara if we don't have shelter from the heat, and hypothermia in the Arctic if we don't have boatloads of clothing and caravans of food. Slave and ivory caravans that passed through the region as late as the second half of the 19th century, may also have provided a gruesome supply of corpses. The caravan of desert travelers came over the ridges of sand, marching ceaselessly under the blazing yellow sun. Irineo has driven llama caravans since he was 12, save for two or three years spent in school, and would not do anything else. It is believed that the dogs got their name from travelling with caravans of traders. For another, the route the caravans took on their way to the slave ships passed through the capital, allowing Afonso to tax and regulate the trade. Djibouti, which has a good natural harbor and ready access to the Ethiopian highlands, attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa as well as Somali settlers from the south. They ended Tuareg trade activities, including the collection of tariffs and the protection services for camel caravans crossing the Sahara. As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans. Over this 1,800-mile trail came yearly caravans carrying not only tools, seeds, and other worldly goods, but also news of the outside world. We had been told that the Bedou could live on this diet for many days as they plodded across the desert with their caravans of laden dromedaries. Thieving guilds and merchant caravans thrive across Valencia, bringing in great profits to our clan, however we do it admit it is unfortunate that we must resort to such measures to make a living. In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment. Attacks on trading caravans and outposts had dropped radically, as well as the raids on the outlying farmsteads and towns of the region. His idea was to raid the pilgrim caravans at sea and in their ports, and even possibly to raid Mecca itself. With the downfall of the Mughal Empire in the mid 1700s, commerce shifted to the sea ports, and the age of camel caravans drew to a close. One can still see camel caravans head to the desert and bring back slabs of salt, a round-trip that would last almost a month, crossing the unforgiving Sahara. Well-established villages that also served as trading centers for caravans, such as Kologelo and Mloka, had by then been abandoned. Word of the venture spread among the miners, who at first could not fathom camels lumbering into their camps, but Laumeister made the caravans a familiar sight. 2.1 Any large group of people, typically with vehicles or animals, traveling together in single file. a caravan of cars and trucks Example sentencesExamples The candidates are neck and neck in the polls, and often seem to be running for president of Ohio, as their bus caravans nearly cross each other's paths. The entire entourage was traveling across a long dirt road, like a caravan, with animals and performers and equipment and everything in tow. He had led a caravan of three automobiles to buy food for the troops when he came upon a band of Villistas. What they're going to do about it: First, they're going to drive very slowly to Ottawa in a caravan involving dozens of cars. Festivities are marked by caravans of automobiles flying flags and blaring horns. In 2003, Funny Cide brought his owners to the big track in their caravan of yellow school buses. Along the ground a caravan of ground crew and volunteers zips along to meet the group at the next rest stop. They organized bus caravans Aug. 31 to take the arrivals to Metairie, 16 miles away, where a food and water distribution center had been set up. The caravan of RV's trucked down Orcas and invaded the quiet cove on East Sound bay where the resort is nestled. Meanwhile, rescue workers continue to meet at the center every day at 6 a.m. to pile into a caravan of pickup trucks. I give the car a bit more gas, accelerate past a caravan of station wagons. Then I heard cars, and I turned to see a caravan of vehicles pulling up behind mine. You have been covering the governor's bus caravan with nearly 200 reporters. As well, a caravan of vehicles had driven slowly towards Toronto from both eastern and western Ontario, clogging traffic on Highway 401. These new suffragists took to the streets, organizing mass parades, automobile caravans, and soapbox speaking. It had been threatening to pour for the two days before and day since the departure of the small caravan of people. It was to be found in the caravan of news vans that followed the Harrison tour. You didn't join a caravan of vehicles fleeing down after the chemical attack at the Mall of America, trying to make Fargo by nightfall. He's leaving a caravan of buses bringing 600 New Orleans buses back to the city. He crossed into southern Iraq from Kuwait about midday in a caravan of sport utility vehicles accompanied by Iraqi police and national guardsmen. Synonyms convoy, procession, column, train, cavalcade, fleet, cortège, company, troop, band, group, assemblage Origin Late 15th century (in caravan (sense 2)): from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense ‘covered horse-drawn wagon’ dates from the early 19th century.
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