Caravan: alternatives and connections

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.

Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.

Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…

An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Compan…

One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company,…

To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form…

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

any cell or one-celled organism equipped with a flagellum

Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.

One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.

One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusal…

A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.

The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.

A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.