Other forms: caravans
A caravan is a home on wheels towed behind a car. A touring caravan, a caravan site, tow a caravan.
In Britain the caravan holiday is an institution, and static caravans on a site are effectively small holiday homes. Towing one has its own licence rules and its own reputation on single-carriageway roads. The original sense is a company of travellers crossing a desert together, which is what the word means in Persian. Note caravanning; caravanserai, the inn where such a company stopped.
1nouncaravanA home on wheels towed behind a car.
“We towed our caravan to the coast and parked it in a field near the beach.”
2nouncompanyA company of travellers crossing a desert together.
“A caravan of camels carried salt across the Sahara.”
caravan is a travelling home or company.
Persian karwan meant a company of travellers on the Silk Road. French carvane brought it into English, and the wheeled home is named after the group of people, not the other way about.
peo
𐎣𐎠𐎼 — people, subjects
pal
kʾlwʾn'
Persian
کاروان
Old French
carvane
Middle French
caravane
English, today
caravan
From Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, from Persian کاروان, from pal kʾlwʾn', from peo 𐎣𐎠𐎼 (“people, subjects”). The word was used to designate a group of people who were travelling by camel or horse on the Silk Road. a doublet of Kairouan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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