CARAVEL

Definitions: CARAVEL

CARAVEL

Noun

1. A Turkish man-of-war.

2. A small fishing boat used on the French coast.

3. A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.

4. The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

5. A name given to several kinds of vessels.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CARAVEL" was first used: 1527. (references)

Synonyms within Context: CARAVEL

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ship	Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CARAVEL

English words defined with "CARAVEL": Carvel ♦ Karvel. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CARAVEL": caravel construction. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CARAVEL

Domain	Title
Books	Caravan caravel (reference) Journey with Caravel; we ran away to sea (reference) Proceedings DASIA 98 : data systems in aerospace : 25-28 May 1998, Divani Caravel Hotel, Athens, Greece (reference) The lost caravel (reference) The lost caravel re-explored (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CARAVEL

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Photo Album: CARAVEL

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Spanish caravel Nina.Credit: Library of Congress.		Pinta, Columbus caravel.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Famous Columbus tree at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was to this tree that Columbus is said to have moored his caravel when he landed on American soil.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CARAVEL

"CARAVEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CARAVEL" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: CARAVEL

Expression using "CARAVEL": caravel construction. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "CARAVEL": caravel-built.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CARAVEL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
caravel	27
caravel academy	13
caravel hotel	10
caravel ship	9
boat caravel	9
caravel resort	6
divani caravel hotel	5
caravel hotel sorrento	4
divani caravel	4
caravel cream ice	3
caravel hotel zante	3
caravel motel	3
airstream caravel	3
divani caravel hotel athens	2
caravel chicago	2
beach caravel myrtle	2
caravel chelan lake	2
caravel chelan lake resort	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: CARAVEL

Language		Translations for "CARAVEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		karavelë (Carvel), anije me vela (galliot, sail, sailboat, sailer, sailing craft, sailing ship, sailing vessel, wind-jammer). (various references)

Arabic		‏مركب كبير. (various references)

Bulgarian		каравела. (various references)

Czech		lehká loï. (various references)

Dutch		karveelbouw (caravel construction, carvel construction). (various references)

French		caravelle. (various references)

German		karavelle. (various references)

Greek		είδοσ ιστιοφόρου (brigantine, clipper). (various references)

Hungarian		gyors kis vitorláshajó (Carvel). (various references)

Italian		caravella. (various references)

Pig Latin		aravelcay

Portuguese		caravela (Carvel). (various references)

Romanian		caravelã (Carvel). (various references)

Russian		каравелла. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		karavela (carvel). (various references)

Spanish		caravela, carabela (Carvel). (various references)

Swedish		karavell. (various references)

Turkish		karavela (Carvel). (various references)

Ukranian		каравела. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: CARAVEL

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	karabos. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	carabus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CARAVEL

Derivations
	Words beginning with "CARAVEL": caravels. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"CARAVEL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caerfanell, caracel, caraf, caralvel, Carapelli, caravela, Caraveli, Caravell, caraven, Carnavel, carpave, carrava, Ceravolo, Cerrava, ciradel, cravel, cravil, Narazel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CARAVEL"

Words rhyming with "CARAVEL" (pronounced 'Car"a*vel'): Avel, Divel, Karvel, Navel, Raivel, Varvel, Yvel. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CARAVEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-r-v"
	-1 letter: carvel, claver, larvae.
	-2 letters: areal, areca, arval, calve, carle, carve, caver, clave, clear, craal, crave, lacer, larva, laver, ravel, velar.
	-3 letters: acre, alae, alar, alec, area, aver, care, carl, cave, earl, lace, lava, lave, lear, leva, race, rale, rave, real, vale, vara, veal, vela, vera.
	-4 letters: aal, ace, ala, ale, arc, are, ava, ave.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-r-v"
	+1 letter: caravels, cavalero, cavalier, precaval.
	+2 letters: calvaries, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavalries, varicella.
	+3 letters: cavaliered, cavalierly, cavalrymen, lacerative, vallecular, varicellas, vernacular.
	+4 letters: acriflavine, cavaliering, cavalierism, declarative, overbalance, quacksalver, vasculature, vernaculars.
	+5 letters: accelerative, acriflavines, articulative, attractively, cadaverously, cavalierisms, clairvoyance, microwavable, overbalanced, overbalances, quacksalvers, renovascular, slavocracies, vasculatures, vernacularly, vocabularies.
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