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# caravan

«caravan» in Mova's school dictionary: **A vehicle with beds and a kitchen pulled by a car, for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a caravan, caravans); verb (caravan, caravanning — UK)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ) A vehicle with beds and a kitchen pulled by a car, for holidays; in the US a trailer or RV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#m1)

2) A group of people with animals or vehicles travelling together, especially across a desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#m2)

3) (old) A covered wagon people live in, like a Romany caravan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK and Australia: caravan holidays, caravan parks. In history and geography: camel caravans crossed deserts carrying trade goods. In maths problems: a caravan site with rows of caravans or the cost per night.

### examples

- We went on a caravan holiday by the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x1)
- The caravan park was full in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x2)
- A caravan of camels crossed the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x3)
- Dad towed the caravan behind the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x4)
- The caravan has two beds and a little sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x5)
- Caravanning is popular in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x6)
- He joined a caravan and set out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/#x7)

### note

US English says «trailer» or «RV» (recreational vehicle). Spelling: car-a-van, one r, one v. In maths: «a caravan site charges 20 pounds a night» is a rate.

### In the corpora

- [The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/25/)
- [Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/6/)
- [Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/14/)
- [In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.435/)
- [The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.136/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caravan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caravan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.