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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 file
2. a camper equipped with living quarters
Familiarity information: CARAVAN used as a noun is rare.
• CARAVAN (verb)
The verb CARAVAN has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: CARAVAN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: caravaned / caravanned
Past participle: caravaned / caravanned
-ing form: caravaning / caravanning
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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