Caravan

Word CARAVAN
Character 7
Hyphenation car a van
Pronunciations /ˈkæɹəvæn/

Definitions and meanings of "Caravan"

What do we mean by caravan?

A company of travelers journeying together, as across a desert or through hostile territory. noun

A single file of vehicles or pack animals. noun

A large covered vehicle; a van. noun

A trailer or dwelling place on wheels. noun

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, in many parts of Asia and Africa, who associate together that they may travel with greater security, especially through deserts or regions infested by robbers. noun

Figuratively, any large number of persons traveling together, especially when moving slowly or with much baggage; poetically, any large number of persons, or even animals, considered as traveling together to a common destination. noun

A large covered carriage used for conveying passengers, or a company of people traveling together, or a traveling exhibition or show; hence, any large covered wagon or cart for travel or transport: often abbreviated to van. noun

A number of vessels or barks in company, or an expedition with such vessels. noun

A hood with hoops or springs of whalebone and an adjustable veil for the face. noun

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa. noun

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts. noun

A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van. noun

A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert. noun

A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary. noun

To travel in a caravan (procession). verb

To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle). verb

Travel in a caravan verb

A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file noun

A camper equipped with living quarters noun

A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Caravan

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The word "caravan" in example sentences

Borrowing the term caravan as descriptive of the march, they established markets at all convenient places. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)

Being shot in the caravan is always painful … … on December 1, 2009 at 8: 05 pm I'm Also Clouseau ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

New York Fashion Week has come and gone but the slow fashion Alabama Chanin caravan just keeps on rolling between ‘The Factory’ in Florence, Alabama to Birmingham, Nashville, and back to NYC again this April. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Watch out, the caravan is coming to a fhalt, I hope Clinton doesn't fall off, Even if she does, It doesn't matter since the Caravan has already come to a final halt. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The entire caravan from the church to the reception was made up of Gran Torinos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I added, ‘The caravan is about to start for Cairo and I wish to return to my people.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

We all imagine Beckett to be that vanner and would like to set her up as the target of one of those Top Gear stunts where a caravan is destroyed by interesting technical means. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Soon his caravan is trailed by thousands of armless and legless disciples, living in tents, begging for food, waiting patiently for another turn in the operating room with Dr. Phyllis. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Sometimes, when the east wind is full of meditative savagery, one almost fancies that a hot odour may have travelled in its caravan from the heart of China, bringing us a message from the spice trees of Kwangtung. ❋ Unknown (1917)

So the word caravan is to be understood in the Arab sense of the word. ❋ Gordon Stables (1875)

The wealthiest company of the caravan is ever Bostenay’s. ❋ Unknown (1822)

Short-term caravan park occupancy rate was 51. 6% and long-term caravan park occupancy rate was ❋ Unknown (2010)

Short-term caravan park takings were $233.8 million in the September quarter 2009, 84. 0% of total caravan park takings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Short-term caravan park occupancy was 51. 6% and long-term caravan park occupancy was 76. 5%. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Short-term caravan park takings were $240.3 million in the March quarter 2009, 84. 4% of total caravan park takings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gamin Keira Knightley is not topless in some tawdry magazine to be poured over by adolescent boys at school and men in Welsh caravan parks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a second exodus (Isa 11: 11-16; 27: 12, 13). singing -- image from the custom of singing on a journey when a caravan is passing along the extended plains in the East. everlasting joy -- (Jude 24). sorrow ... flee away -- (Re 21: 4). ❋ Unknown (1871)

The Afghans are commercial travellers on a large scale and each caravan is accompanied by a number of boys and lads almost in woman’s attire with kohl’d eyes and rouged cheeks, long tresses and henna’d fingers and toes, riding luxuriously in ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some of the best egg salad I’ve had is made with eggs boiled in Russian caravan tea. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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