Definition of "caravan" in Englisch

noun

1. A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

2. (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

3. (collective) A group of camels.

verb

1. To travel in a caravan (procession).

   • The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.
   • 1984, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Information Retrieval Limited, Animal Behaviour Abstracts, Volume 12, page 73, Observations of caravaning were made on the domesticated musk shrew (Suncus murinus) with particular reference to its developmental aspects.

2. (UK, Australia) To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).

   • When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning.
   • 1932, Walter Meade, Caravanning, Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, The Cecil Aldin Book, page 55, It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.