Usually means: Vehicle designed for transporting goods.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word Van:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. van: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. van: Merriam-Webster
  3. Van, van, van, van, van: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. van, van, van: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. van: Collins English Dictionary
  6. van: Vocabulary.com
  7. Van, van: Wordnik
  8. van: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Van: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. VAN, Van, van: Wiktionary
  11. van: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. van: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. van: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. van: Dictionary.com
  15. van (1), van (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. van: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Van (novel), The Van, Van (Dutch), Van (album), Van (disambiguation), Van (electoral district), Van (given name), Van (surname), Van (vehicle): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. van: Rhymezone
  19. van, van, van(af): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. van: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Van (large, delivery): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. Van: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. VAN, Van: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. van: FreeDictionary.org
  25. van: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Van: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. van: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. van: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  29. Van: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  30. Van: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. VAN: Investopedia

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Van (road vehicle), Van (vehicle), van: Encyclopedia
  4. VAN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. VAN: Acronym Finder
  4. VAN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. van: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. VAN: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Van: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Van, van: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Van: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (VAN)

noun:  A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
noun:  (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
noun:  (dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
noun:  (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
verb:  (transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
verb:  (Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
noun:  (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
verb:  (mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
noun:  A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
noun:  A wing with which the air is beaten.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, or Evan.
noun:  A city in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.
noun:  A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey, famous for its Chalcalburnus tarichi (syn. Alburnus tarichi) fish and the 10th century Armenian cathedral on Akhtamar Island.
noun:  Van (a city on the shore of that lake, the capital of Van province, Turkey).
noun:  Van (a province of Turkey).
noun:  A Van cat.
noun:  A Turkish Van cat.
noun:  Clipping of vanguard. [(military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Vancouver. [A surname.]
noun:  Abbreviation of value-added network. [A communications network with additional functions such as error correction, protocol conversion and message storing.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Vancouver. [A surname.]

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