English▸ noun a medium-sized motor vehicle, typically without side windows in the rear part, for transporting goods:
delivery vans can't pull in and are holding up the traffic behind them
[as modifier] a van driver.
▪ British English an enclosed railway vehicle for conveying luggage, mail, etc.:
[with modifier] he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans.
▪ British English a caravan.