Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who leads the camels, etc., of a caravan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

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  • noun The leader or driver of the camels in a caravan.

Etymologies

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Compare French caravanier.

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Examples

  • Albright suggested that Abraham, “a caravaneer of high repute,” took part in the great trade network of the nineteenth centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Albright suggested that Abraham, “a caravaneer of high repute,” took part in the great trade network of the nineteenth centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Albright suggested that Abraham, “a caravaneer of high repute,” took part in the great trade network of the nineteenth centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Albright suggested that Abraham, “a caravaneer of high repute,” took part in the great trade network of the nineteenth centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • He will sit down and begin asking about the best way to bargain with a caravaneer.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • The caravaneer indicated a stand of monuments on the bowl's far rim.

    An Ill Fate Marshalling Cook, Glen 1988

  • He will sit down and begin asking about the best way to bargain with a caravaneer.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • Since, he had turned his father's nearly bankrupt caravaneer outfittery around.

    An Ill Fate Marshalling Cook, Glen 1988

  • For the high-road, the hedgerows, the birds, the changing sky, the ever-varying landscape, belong to the caravaneer.

    Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • The caravaneer looks down with indifference upon the dense curiosity of the smaller towns; the larger cities he wisely avoids.

    Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Henry Seton Merriman 1882

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