Caravan vs. Carriage — What's the Difference?

A company of travelers journeying together, as across a desert or through hostile territory.

A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis.

A single file of vehicles or pack animals.

A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.

A large covered vehicle; a van.

Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.

Chiefly British A trailer or dwelling place on wheels.

A baby carriage.

A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.

A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part

To travel in a caravan (procession).

The act or process of transporting or carrying.

To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).

(kărē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

(Archaic) Management; administration.

A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; - sometimes shorted into van.

The act of conveying; carrying.

A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file;

Means of conveyance.

A camper equipped with living quarters

A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

A railroad car

The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.

(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.

The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.

A shopping cart.

(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.

The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

(archaic) That which is carried, baggage

That which is carried; burden; baggage.

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

The price or expense of carrying.

That which carries of conveys,

The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

A railcar where passengers ride

A vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses

Characteristic way of bearing one's body;

A machine part that carries something else

A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around