Van Væn Police Carrying Delivery Noun Bre Furniture

• a furniture van
• a police van (= for carrying police officers or prisoners)
• a delivery van
• a van driver

van

1. a covered vehicle with no side windows in its back half, usually smaller than a lorry/truck, used for carrying goods or people
• a furniture van
• a police van (= for carrying police officers or prisoners)
• a delivery van
• a van driver
2. a covered vehicle with side windows, usually smaller than a lorry/truck, that can carry about twelve passengers
3. a closed coach/car on a train for carrying bags, cases, etc. or mail
• See related entries: Trains
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/trains/van_1
• a luggage van
4. at the front or in the leading position
• These artists felt themselves in the van of the movement, true pioneers.

Extra Examples

• A TV news van was parked at the entrance.
• Each band had a tour van.
• a TV detector van going round the area
• A bomb had been planted in a parked van.
• A delivery van was almost blocking the narrow street.
• On election day they drove around town in a van with a loudspeaker on the roof.
• The gang robbed a mail van, seriously injuring one of the guards.
• The van’s interior was fitted with shelves.
• a mail/luggage van

Word Origin

• noun early 19th cent.: shortening of caravan.