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 →

2) A group of people with animals or vehicles travelling together, especially across a desert. tree →

3) (old) A covered wagon people live in, like a Romany caravan. tree →

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 →
• The caravan park was full in summer. tree →
• A caravan of camels crossed the desert. tree →
• Dad towed the caravan behind the car. tree →
• The caravan has two beds and a little sink. tree →
• Caravanning is popular in Australia. tree →
• He joined a caravan and set out. tree →

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».
• Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.
• Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest.
• In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
• The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them —

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «caravan» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.