caravana
caravan
noun kah-rah-BAH-nah Rare
Origin: Persian kārwān (group of travellers), via Arabic and French.
Also means
convoy
Usage Note
Caravana covers a caravan of travellers or vehicles, a convoy, and — in Latin America — a traffic jam (hay caravana en la autopista 'there is a traffic jam on the motorway'). In Spain a trailing caravan for camping is caravana or autocaravana. The traffic-jam sense is especially common in Mexico.
Examples
"La caravana de coches avanzaba lentamente."
Natural Translation
The convoy of cars advanced slowly.
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