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CARAVAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caravan mean? 

CARAVAN (noun)
  The noun CARAVAN has 2 senses:

1. a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single fileplay

2. a camper equipped with living quartersplay

  Familiarity information: CARAVAN used as a noun is rare.


CARAVAN (verb)
  The verb CARAVAN has 1 sense:

1. travel in a caravanplay

  Familiarity information: CARAVAN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARAVAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

caravan; train; wagon train

Context example:

they joined the wagon train for safety

Hypernyms ("caravan" is a kind of...):

procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation)

Meronyms (members of "caravan"):

Conestoga; Conestoga wagon; covered wagon; prairie schooner; prairie wagon (a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century)

Derivation:

caravan (travel in a caravan)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A camper equipped with living quarters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

caravan; van

Hypernyms ("caravan" is a kind of...):

camper; camping bus; motor home (a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling)


CARAVAN (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they caravan  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it caravans  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: caravaned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation / caravanned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: caravaned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation / caravanned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: caravaning  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation / caravanning  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel in a caravan

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "caravan" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

caravan (a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file)


 Context examples 


To-day the police traced them down and examined their caravan.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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