Definitions for caravan

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caravan car·a·van

Spelling: [kar-uh-van]

IPA: /ˈkær əˌvæn/

Caravan is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in caravan (aaacnrv).

Definitions for caravan

noun

1. a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
2. any group traveling in or as if in a caravan and using a specific mode of transportation, as pack animals or motor vehicles:
3. a large covered vehicle for conveying passengers, goods, a sideshow, etc.; van.
4. Chiefly British. a house on wheels; trailer.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry in or as if in a caravan:

verb (used without object)

1. to travel in or as if in a caravan:

Origin of caravan

1590-1600; earlier carovan Italian carovana Persian kārwān

Examples for caravan

A caravan of trams stuck in the middle of the medieval city waited in line for the protest to end.

This was our caravan, and God Almighty had created the elephant for us.

In Hori I encountered a caravan of pilgrims returning from Mecca.

The progress of the caravan of SUVs and buses ferrying the embassy staff out to Tunisia was monitored in real-time in Washington.

On May 13, 2014, a pickup truck approached a caravan of white vans moving on a road near Baqubah, east of Baghdad, in Iraq.

The caravan was carrying humanitarian aid, Russian authorities said.

At an angle calculated to intercept the caravan, Kingozi set off down the hill.

Thus the four tribes represented in his caravan were supplied.

I met a girl on holiday in a caravan park—which you guys call a trailer park—and she was from Northern Ireland.

Beside which, the caravan was moving at the majestic rate of about five miles a day.