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caravan
(kærəvæn)
Word forms: plural caravans
1. countable noun
A caravan is a vehicle without an engine that can be pulled by a car or van. It contains beds and cooking equipment so that people can live or spend their holidays in it.
[mainly British]regional note: in AM, usually use trailer2. countable noun
A caravan is a group of people and animals or vehicles who travel together.
...the old caravan routes from Central Asia to China.
caravan in British English
(ˈkærəˌvæn)
noun
1.
a.
a large enclosed vehicle capable of being pulled by a car or lorry and equipped to be lived in
US and Canadian name: trailerb.
(as modifier)
a caravan site
2.
(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
3.
a group of wagons, pack mules, camels, etc, esp travelling in single file
4.
a large covered vehicle, esp a gaily coloured one used by Roma, circuses, etc
verbWord forms: -vans, -vanning or -vanned
5. (intransitive) British
to travel or have a holiday in a caravan
Derived forms
caravanning (ˈcaraˌvanning) noun
Word origin
C16: from Italian caravana, from Persian kārwāncaravan in American English
(ˈkærəˌvæn)
noun
1.
a company of travelers, esp. of merchants or pilgrims traveling together for safety, as through a desert
2.
a number of vehicles traveling together
3.
a large covered vehicle for passengers, circus animals, gypsies, etc.; van
4. British
a mobile home or trailer
Derived forms
caravaner (ˈcaraˌvaner) noun
Word origin
Fr caravane < OFr carouan < Pers kārwān, caravanImage ofcaravan
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British English: caravan /ˈkærəˌvæn/ NOUN
A caravan is a vehicle without an engine that can be pulled by a car or van. It contains beds and cooking equipment so that people can live or spend their holidays in it.
...a caravan holiday.
- American English: trailer vacation home
- Arabic: مَقْطُورَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: trailer
- Chinese: 旅游房车
- Croatian: kamp kućica
- Czech: karavan
- Danish: karavane
- Dutch: caravan
- European Spanish: caravana
- Finnish: asuntovaunu
- French: caravane
- German: Wohnwagen
- Greek: τροχόσπιτο
- Italian: roulotte
- Japanese: トレーラーハウス
- Korean: 트레일러 하우스
- Norwegian: campingvogn
- Polish: przyczepa kempingowa
- European Portuguese: roulotte
- Romanian: rulotă
- Russian: фургон
- Latin American Spanish: caravana
- Swedish: husvagn
- Thai: รถคาราวาน
- Turkish: karavan
- Ukrainian: будинок на колесах
- Vietnamese: xe moóc caravan
Chinese translation of 'caravan'
caravan
(ˈkærəvæn)
n (c)
- (Brit, = vehicle)
活动(動)住房
(huódòng zhùfáng) (处, chù)美 = trailer - (in desert)
旅行队(隊)
(lǚxíng duì)