car·a·van ˈker-ə-ˌvan 
ˈka-rə-
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 sense 1b
caravanned or caravaned; caravanning or caravaning
: to travel in a caravan
Examples of caravan in a Sentence
Noun a funeral caravan slowly making its way down the street bought a caravan and drove cross-country to California Verb We caravaned to the campsite.
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Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026 As founder and general manager Felix Yang puts it, the company is not simply building a more capable caravan but something closer to a platform. —Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026 Following that event, attendees can caravan to the WWII Memorial located at Ninth and G streets for an 11 a.m. ceremony. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for caravan
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Noun
Then the family in Cincinnati stopped hearing updates from the caravan. —Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026 As founder and general manager Felix Yang puts it, the company is not simply building a more capable caravan but something closer to a platform. —Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
The change, which Cochrane said is an experiment, is also a concession to several external factors that make the old-school style caravans more challenging. —Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026 Following that event, attendees can caravan to the WWII Memorial located at Ninth and G streets for an 11 a.m. ceremony. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for caravan
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“Caravan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/caravan. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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