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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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