caravan

¹car·a·van

noun \ˈker-ə-ˌvan, ˈka-rə-\

Definition of CARAVAN

1

a : a company of travelers on a journey through desert or hostile regions; also : a train of pack animals b : a group of vehicles traveling together (as in a file)

2

a : a covered wagon or motor vehicle equipped as traveling living quarters b British : trailer 3b

Examples of CARAVAN

1. <a funeral caravan slowly making its way down the street>
2. <bought a caravan and drove cross-country to California>

Origin of CARAVAN

Italian caravana, from Persian kārvān

First Known Use: 1588

Related to CARAVAN

Synonyms: armada, fleet, cavalcade, line, motorcade, train

Related Words: argosy, convoy, flotilla, navy; column, cortege (also cortège), parade, procession

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Other Vehicles Terms

brougham, hansom, litter, shay, skid, sledge, sulky, wain

Rhymes with CARAVAN

advance man, Alcoran, also-ran, Ameslan, anchorman, as one man, astrakhan, Astrakhan, ataman, Athelstan, attackman, balmacaan, Bantustan, bartizan, black-and-tan, bogeyman, boogeyman, businessman, Caliban, cameraman, cattleman, Civitan, cornerman, counterman, counterplan, countryman, courtesan, cutoff man, dairyman, defenseman, detail man, everyman, exciseman, expressman, family man, fancy-dan, fancy man, frying pan, funnyman, gamelan, garageman, garbageman, Hamadan, handyman, harmattan, hatchet man, Hindustan, hotelman, in the can, Isle of Man, jerrican, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, leading man, man-for-man, man-to-man, master plan, middleman, minivan, minuteman, Monaghan, moneyman, mountain man, muscleman, Occitan, ombudsman, Omdurman, overman, Pakistan, Parmesan, partisan, pattypan, Peking man, Peter Pan, pivotman, plainclothesman, Port Sudan, Powhatan, rather than, repairman, rewrite man, safetyman, sandwich man, selectman, serviceman, signalman, spick-and-span, superman, tallyman, tamarin, to a man, triggerman, trimaran, turbofan, Turkistan, vacuum pan, weatherman, workingman, yataghan