Hearse vs. Caravan — What's the Difference?

A hearse is a large vehicle, especially an automobile, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin/casket at a funeral, wake, or memorial service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to very formal heavily decorated vehicles.

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

A vehicle for conveying a coffin to a church or cemetery.

A single file of vehicles or pack animals.

(Christianity) A triangular candelabrum used at Tenebrae during Holy Week.

A large covered vehicle; a van.

A framelike structure over a coffin or tomb on which to hang epitaphs.

Chiefly British A trailer or dwelling place on wheels.

A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age.

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

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.

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

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

To travel in a caravan (procession).

A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

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

A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

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.

(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

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

A hind in the second year of its age.

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

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.

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

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

A camper equipped with living quarters

A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.

To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle