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/kˈærəvˌæn/ /kˈɛrəvˌæn/ Listen

noun

Caravan n.

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.

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

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

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Etymology of 'Caravan'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Caravan" Quotes from Famous Books

... that Civilised Man Falls too much to the rear if he lives in a Van; But Caravan-dwellers, with force and urbanity, Declare that SMITH's views of Van life are ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 14, 1891. • Various

... land that lies beyond Erzeroum and Trebizond, Garden-girt, his fortress stood; Plundered khan, or caravan Journeying north from Koordistan, Gave him ...

— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

... whirlwind. She owed this nature to the wandering life which she had always led. Gringoire had succeeded in learning that, while a mere child, she had traversed Spain and Catalonia, even to Sicily; he believed that she had even been taken by the caravan of Zingari, of which she formed a part, to the kingdom of Algiers, a country situated in Achaia, which country adjoins, on one side Albania and Greece; on the other, the Sicilian Sea, which is the road to Constantinople. ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... however, my endeavours should prove fruitless, as I should already have proceeded too far to return alone, I was to continue on from Santa Fe with the fur traders, returning to St. Louis, on the Mississippi, where I was to dispose of some valuable jewels, hire men to form a strong caravan, and return to the ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

... week spent in Independence buying mules and waggons, we took the route over the plains. There were a hundred waggons in the caravan, and nearly twice that number of teamsters and attendants. Two of the capacious vehicles contained all my "plunder;" and, to manage them, I had hired a couple of lathy, long-haired Missourians. I had also engaged a Canadian voyageur named ...

— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

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