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Definition of "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)
  • Chiefly British A trailer or dwelling place on wheels. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "caravan" in a sentence
  • "Borrowing the term caravan as descriptive of the march, they established markets at all convenient places."
  • "Being shot in the caravan is always painful … … on December 1, 2009 at 8: 05 pm I'm Also Clouseau"
  • "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."