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Definition: Caravan |
CaravanNoun1. A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety". 2. (British) a camper equipped with living quarters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caravan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Personal Care & Hotels | A house on wheels. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CARAVAN. A large sum of money; also, a person cheated of such sum. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For mobile housing, see Camper.
Caravans comprise land-based trading convoys, often utilising the camel as a beast of burden, and generally associated with crossing deserts in Asia or Africa.
For similar phenomena in Australia, see camel train. For a North American analogue, see wagon train.
See also caravanserai.
Caravan is a brandname of popular minivan produced by Dodge.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caravan."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Chrysler Caravan or Dodge Caravan is a minivan marketed by the Chrysler Corporation. It was introduced in 1984 with its twin model the Plymouth Voyager. It still ranks as North America's best selling minivan and is actually one of the first minivan's.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chrysler Caravan."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Caravan | English | Car and van | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CaravanSynonyms: train (n), van (n), wagon train (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column. |
Vehicle | Noun: vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van; common carrier; wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caravan |
| English words defined with "caravan": Cafileh, Caravaneer, caravanning, cover, cross, cut across, cut through ♦ get across, get over ♦ pass over ♦ track, train, traverse ♦ wagon train. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caravan": Fleet of the Desert. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "caravan": Coffle. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Caravan" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (caravan, trailer). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Caravan to Vaccares (1974) Medicine Ball Caravan (1971) Caravan petrol (1960) The Blazing Caravan (1954) Phantom Caravan (1954) | |
Song Titles | Spanish Caravan (performing artist: The Doors) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The grand national caravan moving east. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A caravan outside the walls of Peking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Car caravan on Dempsey Cutoff, Lincoln County, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Los Angeles (Calif.) Evacuation -- Caravan of evacuees leaving Mariposa Street Control Station for Santa Anita Assembly Center, April 28, 1942. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American desert in Nebraska). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mule caravan at town, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bactrian camel caravan on the Amur. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Close-up of bactrian camel caravan on the Amur River. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Trees_with_sun" by archgimp Commentary: "A nice shot at a caravan park where we attended a bbq ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The people in flight streamed out on 66, sometimes a single car, sometimes a little caravan. |
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Economic History | Seychelles | The aircraft inventory includes one Caravan F-460, one Defender, and one Beech 1900. (references) |
Human Rights | Chile | The investigation of the most prominent of these cases, known as the Caravan of Death, led to a Supreme Court decision in August 2000 which lifted Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. (references) |
Chile | On September 5, Supreme Court Judge Domingo Kokisch denied Pinochet's extradition on the basis that Pinochet's senatorial immunity was suspended by the Supreme Court only in the Caravan of Death case but still protects him from other charges. (references) | |
Political Economy | Chile | On July 10, the Santiago Court of Appeals ruled that former president Pinochet was mentally unfit to stand trial, and temporarily suspended all legal proceedings in the Caravan of Death case against him pending an improvement in his condition. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Nellie Connally | The day had changed from a gray, rainy day to a beautiful bright, sunshiny day, perfect for a caravan. Before we landed, I asked John if I could ride in the car with him in Dallas. He said, certainly. |
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| "Caravan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.18% of the time. "Caravan" is used about 989 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 (singular) | 98.18% | 971 | 7,511 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.82% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 989 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "caravan": camel caravan ♦ caravan holiday ♦ caravan inn ♦ caravan site. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "caravan": caravan-club, caravan-dragging, caravan-sary, caravan-serai, caravan-site. | |
Ending with "caravan": camper-caravan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
caravan | 1,424 | dodge caravan recall | 54 |
dodge caravan | 908 | caravan insurance | 54 |
dodge grand caravan | 243 | gypsy caravan | 48 |
caravan park | 139 | caravan coleman | 44 |
motor caravan | 105 | caravan corvette | 43 |
1994 blue book caravan dodge grand value | 105 | dodge caravan accessory | 41 |
cessna caravan | 89 | camping caravan | 41 |
caravan for sale | 85 | used dodge caravan | 41 |
caravan club | 85 | caravan hire | 40 |
caravan canopy | 77 | buy a dodge caravan | 40 |
holiday caravan | 77 | caravan awning | 39 |
caravan site | 75 | dance caravan | 36 |
dodge caravan part | 72 | 2003 dodge caravan | 34 |
hobby caravan | 70 | 2000 dodge caravan | 33 |
caravan toronto | 70 | 1998 dodge caravan | 32 |
grand caravan | 68 | caravan uk | 32 |
used caravan | 65 | caravan org.com | 31 |
caravan for sales | 64 | caravan site uk | 31 |
caravan accessory | 60 | uk caravan holiday | 30 |
static caravan | 57 | dodge caravan transmission problem | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "caravan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vargan (cavalcade, convoy, jew's harp, procession, train), karavan, furgon (Van), dhomë e rimorkueshme. (various references) | |
Arabic | موكب (cortege, escort, pageant, parade, procession), قافلة من الجمال والعربات, عربة كبيرة, القافلة (convoy, echelon), ركب قافلة (convoy, procession), بيت متنقل على عجلا ت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фургон (waggon, wagon), керван (train), подвижна къща на колела. (various references) | |
Chinese | 有蓬卡车, 商隊 . (various references) | |
Czech | maringotka (Van), karavana. (various references) | |
Danish | beboelsesvogn (boarding car, living van, workman's sleeping coach). (various references) | |
Dutch | karavaan. (various references) | |
Esperanto | karavano. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ferðamannafylgi, felags-. (various references) | |
Farsi | کاروان (Convoy). (various references) | |
Finnish | karavaani, asuntovaunu (trailer). (various references) | |
French | roulotte, caravane (camping caravan). (various references) | |
German | wohnwagen (caravans, mobile home, trailer, Van), karawane. (various references) | |
Greek | τροχόσπιτο (trailer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעונוע, קרון (carriage, cart, waggon, wagon), אורחה (travelling company), גדודית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vontatott lakókocsi (trailer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | karavan (camper (auto)), kafilah. (various references) | |
Italian | roulotte (trailer), caravan (trailer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | キャビネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | キャラバン . (various references) | |
Manx | thie troailt, caravaan. (various references) | |
Papiamen | karavana. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aravancay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caravana (train). (various references) | |
Romanian | convoi (convoy, screen, train), chervan (Van, waggon, wain), casã pe roate, caravanã, cãruţã (carload, cart, dray, waggon, wain), rulotã. (various references) | |
Russian | караван. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prikolica za stanovanje, karavan (camper). (various references) | |
Spanish | caravana (jam, mobile home, stream, trailer, train). (various references) | |
Swedish | karavan (train), husvagn (trailer). (various references) | |
Thai | เดินทางไปเป็นกลุ่ม, กลุ่มคนเดินทาง. (various references) | |
Turkish | seyyar ev, kervan (train), karavanla gezmek, karavanda yaşamak, karavan (trailer, Van), kafile (convoy, cortege, group, procession, train). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kerwen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | роззява (calf, chaw-bacon, cuckoo, goose, softy, yak, zany), халабуда (sty), фургон (camion, waggon, wagon), караван (coffle, pack train, train), ключ (clef, clew, fountain, key, passkey, secret), кибитка (waggon, wagon), валка, йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, boob, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, dimwit, fathead, gawk, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany), низка (band, catena, vista), будиночок-автопричіп. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhà lưu động xe tải lớn có mui, đoàn người hành hương xe lớn, đoàn bộ hành. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kaskal. (various references) |
| Persian | 800-Modern | karwan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caravan": caravaned, caravaner, caravaners, caravaning, caravanned, caravanner, caravanners, caravanning, caravans, caravansaries, caravansary, caravanserai, caravanserais. (additional references) | |
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"Caravan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arava, caraa, carabao, Carapa, caravana, caravane, caraven, cardayvay, caritan, Carnarvan, Carnavon, carrava, Cartagana, carvan, Catavi, cavaran, Cerrava, ciproxan, Citrohan, cormacan, Cravan, cravant, cumaean, Damavand, kadazan, Kahraman, karacan, Karavan, Kasrawan, Kaurava, kauravas, kirvan, korovan, Krasavin, Maraven, paravane, paraven, Saraiva, Scadavay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "caravan" (pronounced 'Car"a*van'): Cordovan, Sivan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: arcana. | |
-2 letters: navar, varna. | |
-3 letters: carn, narc, vara. | |
-4 letters: ana, arc, ava, can, car, ran, vac, van, var. | |
-5 letters: aa, an, ar, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-n-r-v" | |
+1 letter: caravans. | |
+2 letters: caravaned, caravaner. | |
+3 letters: caravaners, caravaning, caravanned, caravanner, cavalryman. | |
+4 letters: caravanners, caravanning, caravansary. | |
+5 letters: caravanserai, extravagance, extravagancy. | |
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