Word Meanings - CARAVAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. A large, covered

Additional info about word: CARAVAN

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARAVAN)

• Procession
• Train
• march
• caravan
• file
• cortege
• cavalcade
• retinue

Related words: (words related to CARAVAN)

• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• MARCH
  The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares,
• CARAVANSARY
  A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being (more info) Per. karwansara'8b; karwan caravan + -sara'8b palace, large house,
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• MARCHING
  ,fr. March, v. Marching money , the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order , equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. A regiment in active service. In England, a regiment liable
• CARAVAN
  1. 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. A large, covered
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• MARCHIONESS
  The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.
• MARCH-MAD
  Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.
• CAVALCADE
  A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. Prescott. (more info) cavalcare to go on horseback, fr. LL. caballicare, fr. L. caballus an
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• CARAVANEER
  The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• TRAIN
  To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey. (more info) 1. To draw along;
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• TRAINY
  Belonging to train oil. Gay.
• PROCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• OVERMARCH
  To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.
• DISMARCH
  To march away.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.