English▸ noun a medium-sized motor vehicle with a boxy shape and high roof, used for transporting goods or passengers:
delivery vans can't pull in and are holding up the traffic behind them
[as modifier] a van driver
we drove a seven-passenger van.
▪ British an enclosed railroad freight car:
[with modifier] he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans.
▪ British a caravan.