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noun vanvæn 1A medium-sized motor vehicle, typically without side windows in the rear part, for transporting goods. 有蓬货客两用车，厢式货客两用车 delivery vans can't pull in and are holding up the traffic behind them Example sentencesExamples - A man wearing a balaclava approached an unoccupied parked van and fired two shots into it.
- An armed attack on an armoured security van carrying thousands in cash was foiled by undercover police.
- The pickup driver then opened the driver's side of the van brandishing a handgun.
- He was hit by a car as he stepped out from behind a parked van.
- A delivery van driver disturbed the burglar, but he escaped.
- Just as they reached the bus stop, a stolen police van pulled up.
- As he passed the entrance of the church he heard a bump on the side of his van.
- They dragged her outside and easily threw her into the bed of an unmarked dark blue van.
- A team of nine scenes-of-crime officers were dispatched in a police van with blacked-out windows to search the couple's home last night.
- A spokesperson said two robbers approached the driver of a security van that was transporting the cash, forced him to the ground and tied his hands.
- Police are hunting the van driver and have appealed for witnesses.
- The van collided with a parked car after the collision.
- Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists.
- Betty May Hall was driving a white rental van, following her husband's red Toyota.
- Trading standards officers spoke to two men in a builder's van.
- The windscreen of the van cracked and the side window shattered.
- As usual tens of riot police vans were waiting for them.
- The following morning the gang were caught red handed loading the loot into a stolen transit van.
- The drivers of both the van and car were injured.
- The 23-year-old, who has not been named by police, was driving a sports car which hit a van on the wrong side of the road.
- 1.1British An enclosed railway vehicle for conveying luggage, mail, etc.
〈英〉（有棚盖的）（铁路）货车，行李车 with modifier he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans Example sentencesExamples - This explains why Edwardian ladies had so much luggage, deposited in the baggage van by a team of railway porters.
- Here the diesel engine that shunts the little guard's van turns tail and pulls them home.
- Goods of little value were removed from the guard's van.
- In more recent years pooled cabooses for mainline trains meant only assigned local and branchline train crews kept their own van.
- In later years a new coach shop was built at John Street and the West Toronto shops concentrated on freight and service equipment including rebuilding wooden vans.
- 1.2British A caravan.
〈英〉拖车 Example sentencesExamples - He knew of the caravan site, found two insecure unoccupied vans, slept there and took items of low value.
- Zoe is on the lookout for a place to stay, perhaps a van at the caravan park.
- Caravanners have been warned to watch out for their vans after a spate of breaks-in at Bolton-le-Sands.
- New legislation for holiday vans came into force in recent weeks covering arrangements in caravan parks where vans are left on site for regular recreational use.
- The caravan park was crammed with campers, vans and tents.
Synonyms mobile home, camper, caravanette wagon, covered cart
OriginEarly 19th century: shortening of caravan. caravan from Late Middle English: The first use of caravan was for a group of people travelling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa. The word comes from French caravane, from Persian kārwān. The sense ‘covered horse-drawn wagon’ dates from the early 19th century; during this period it also described a third class ‘covered carriage’ on a railway. A caravanserai (late 16th century) is from Persian kārwānsarāy, literally a ‘caravan palace’: the word is either the same as the early sense of caravan or describes an inn with a central courtyard for travellers. Van (early 19th century) is a shortening of caravan, to which the word also sometimes refers. The earlier van (early 17th century), ‘the foremost part of a group of people’, found as part of the phrase in the van of, is also an abbreviated form, from vanguard (Late Middle English), whose first part was from Old French avant ‘before’ (compare vamp). The workman's white van is such a familiar sight that white van man has recently entered the language to mean an aggressive male van driver, or more widely an ordinary working man with forthright views.
RhymesAberfan, Adrianne, an, Anne, artisan, astrakhan, ban, began, Belmopan, bipartisan, bran, can, Cannes, Cézanne, Cheyenne, clan, courtesan, cran, dan, Dayan, Diane, divan, élan, Elan, fan, flan, foreran, Fran, Friedan, Gell-Mann, gran, Han, Hunan, Ivan, Jan, Japan, Jinan, Joanne, Kazan, Klan, Kordofan, Lacan, Lausanne, Leanne, Limousin, Louvain, man, Mann, Marianne, Milan, Moran, nan, Oran, outran, outspan, Pan, panne, parmesan, partisan, pavane, pecan, Pétain, plan, Pusan, ran, rataplan, rattan, Rosanne, Sagan, Saipan, saran, scan, scran, sedan, span, spick-and-span, Spokane, Suzanne, Tainan, tan, than, tisane, trepan, vin, Wuhan, Xian, Yerevan, Yunnan, Zhongshan noun vanvæn the van1The foremost part of a group of people moving or preparing to move forwards, especially the foremost division of an advancing military force. 先锋，先头部队 in the van were the foremost chiefs and some of the warriors astride horses 走在队伍最前面的是骑着马的最重要的头领和一些勇士。 Example sentencesExamples - The men who they select from the whole force and station in the van are fleet of foot and fit admirably into cavalry action.
- The chief had been in the van of the rushing throng.
- It made little difference what rank others in the van might bear.
- After an attack by crossbowmen and infantry, the van of the French cavalry charged impetuously through their own infantry across the stream and up the slope on the other side.
- 1.1 The forefront.
〈喻〉先驱，先锋 he was in the van of the movement to encourage the cultivation of wild flowers 他是提倡种植野花运动的先锋。 Example sentencesExamples - As always the hospitality and courtesy of Mayo people in the Sportlann was early in evidence with Sean Feeney, John Prenty and May Moran leading the van.
- Two economies have been strikingly in the van of this advance: the US and China.
- The Australian dollar was again in the van last night, rising 0.6% against a broadly weaker US dollar.
Synonyms forefront, vanguard, advance guard, avant-garde, spearhead, front, front line, front rank, fore, lead, leading position, cutting edge, driving force
OriginEarly 17th century: abbreviation of vanguard. noun vanvæn archaic 1A winnowing fan. 〈古〉簸（谷）器 Example sentencesExamples - One golden crop has felt the winnowing van, another now is ready.
- Nothing is more commonly found in the monuments of the heathen feasts than a small chest, a van, and a flute or a drum.
2literary A bird's wing. 〈古，诗/文〉（鸟）翼
OriginLate Middle English: dialect variant of fan1, probably reinforced by Old French van or Latin vannus. noun vanvæn British Tennis informal another term for advantage
nounvænvan 1A medium-sized motor vehicle with a boxy shape and high roof, used for transporting goods or passengers. 有蓬货客两用车，厢式货客两用车 delivery vans can't pull in and are holding up the traffic behind them we drove a seven-passenger van Example sentencesExamples - A team of nine scenes-of-crime officers were dispatched in a police van with blacked-out windows to search the couple's home last night.
- Betty May Hall was driving a white rental van, following her husband's red Toyota.
- The drivers of both the van and car were injured.
- The following morning the gang were caught red handed loading the loot into a stolen transit van.
- Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists.
- They dragged her outside and easily threw her into the bed of an unmarked dark blue van.
- Just as they reached the bus stop, a stolen police van pulled up.
- A delivery van driver disturbed the burglar, but he escaped.
- A spokesperson said two robbers approached the driver of a security van that was transporting the cash, forced him to the ground and tied his hands.
- A man wearing a balaclava approached an unoccupied parked van and fired two shots into it.
- The 23-year-old, who has not been named by police, was driving a sports car which hit a van on the wrong side of the road.
- As he passed the entrance of the church he heard a bump on the side of his van.
- Trading standards officers spoke to two men in a builder's van.
- The pickup driver then opened the driver's side of the van brandishing a handgun.
- He was hit by a car as he stepped out from behind a parked van.
- Police are hunting the van driver and have appealed for witnesses.
- An armed attack on an armoured security van carrying thousands in cash was foiled by undercover police.
- The windscreen of the van cracked and the side window shattered.
- The van collided with a parked car after the collision.
- As usual tens of riot police vans were waiting for them.
- 1.1British An enclosed railroad freight car.
with modifier he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans Example sentencesExamples - Here the diesel engine that shunts the little guard's van turns tail and pulls them home.
- Goods of little value were removed from the guard's van.
- In later years a new coach shop was built at John Street and the West Toronto shops concentrated on freight and service equipment including rebuilding wooden vans.
- This explains why Edwardian ladies had so much luggage, deposited in the baggage van by a team of railway porters.
- In more recent years pooled cabooses for mainline trains meant only assigned local and branchline train crews kept their own van.
- 1.2British A caravan.
〈英〉拖车 Example sentencesExamples - He knew of the caravan site, found two insecure unoccupied vans, slept there and took items of low value.
- Caravanners have been warned to watch out for their vans after a spate of breaks-in at Bolton-le-Sands.
- The caravan park was crammed with campers, vans and tents.
- New legislation for holiday vans came into force in recent weeks covering arrangements in caravan parks where vans are left on site for regular recreational use.
- Zoe is on the lookout for a place to stay, perhaps a van at the caravan park.
Synonyms mobile home, camper, caravanette wagon, covered cart
OriginEarly 19th century: shortening of caravan. nounvænvan the van1The foremost part of a company of people moving or preparing to move forward, especially the foremost division of an advancing military force. 先锋，先头部队 in the van were the foremost chiefs and some of the warriors astride horses 走在队伍最前面的是骑着马的最重要的头领和一些勇士。 Example sentencesExamples - The men who they select from the whole force and station in the van are fleet of foot and fit admirably into cavalry action.
- The chief had been in the van of the rushing throng.
- It made little difference what rank others in the van might bear.
- After an attack by crossbowmen and infantry, the van of the French cavalry charged impetuously through their own infantry across the stream and up the slope on the other side.
- 1.1 The forefront.
〈喻〉先驱，先锋 he was in the van of the movement to encourage the cultivation of wildflowers 他是提倡种植野花运动的先锋。 Example sentencesExamples - As always the hospitality and courtesy of Mayo people in the Sportlann was early in evidence with Sean Feeney, John Prenty and May Moran leading the van.
- Two economies have been strikingly in the van of this advance: the US and China.
- The Australian dollar was again in the van last night, rising 0.6% against a broadly weaker US dollar.
Synonyms forefront, vanguard, advance guard, avant-garde, spearhead, front, front line, front rank, fore, lead, leading position, cutting edge, driving force
OriginEarly 17th century: abbreviation of vanguard. nounvænvan archaic 1A winnowing fan. 〈古〉簸（谷）器 Example sentencesExamples - Nothing is more commonly found in the monuments of the heathen feasts than a small chest, a van, and a flute or a drum.
- One golden crop has felt the winnowing van, another now is ready.
2literary A bird's wing. 〈古，诗/文〉（鸟）翼
OriginLate Middle English: dialect variant of fan, probably reinforced by Old French van or Latin vannus. nounvænvan British Tennis informal another term for advantage
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