Caravan

/ˈkæɹəvæn/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
2. (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
3. (collective) A group of camels.
4. To travel in a caravan (procession).
5. (UK, Australia) To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).

Example Sentences

To the left the caravan animals, securely picketed, at regular distances of some fifteen yards apart, occupied an area of several acres.

“Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!” grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house whose goods had been feloniously diverted into the hands of other robbers just across the Border, and whose misfortunes were the laughing-stock of the bazar. “Ohé, priest, whence come you and whither do you go?”

Camel caravans, and courageous teamsters opened regular carrying businesses between Southern Cross and Coolgardie, while coaches began to run over the desert.

The caravan of skilled and experienced designers, tunnellers and builders follows these projects around the world.

An Italian woman, twenty years of age, […] was travelling in a caravan with the baggage of the Duke of Wellington's army, in the middle of the night, in a violent storm, while she was fast asleep, a small monkey with a long chain upon the roof of the caravan took refuge in it […]

The caravans were the demarcation between the non-radioactive areas and the radioactive areas. There were two main caravans, one for people going into the forward area, and the other caravan was for people returning.

The best thing about caravans is that they're always exactly the same, said Terence Butcher. You can tow your caravan to Brighton or Bournemouth or Bognor. Doesn′t make the blindest bit of difference. When you close the door behind you at the end of the day you′re home.

The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.

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Word Forms

• caravans
• caravanning
• caravaning
• caravanned
• caravaned

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