CARAVAN

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

2.
n.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

3.
n.

A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.


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