van

Other forms of van

plural

vans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about van

What does van mean?

van means "any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in van?

van has 1 syllable: van. In IPA it is /ˈvæn/.

What is another word for van?

Close synonyms include avant-garde, vanguard, new wave, vanguard, caravan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is van a common word?

van is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with van?

3 words rhyme with van. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.