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caravan

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1. caravan - Noun

2. caravan - Verb

Meaning

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.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving - it doesn't matter, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again, come. Rumi

A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste! Omar Khayyám

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end...crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). Khaled Hosseini

The dog barks, the caravan passes. Azerbaijani Proverb

Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future. Gypsy Proverb

This caravan is lame until doomsday. Persian Proverb

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