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Plural of van

regular plural

The plural of van is vans.

Forms of van

Singularvan /væn/
Pluralvans
Countablecountable

Vans in a sentence

  • Carbon emissions from vans in the UK have risen by 63% since 1990, new analysis shows, as cars are getting cleaner.2024 June 22, James Tapper, “Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  • Unlike the average vehicle, cash delivery vans are ironclad and almost unstoppable.From the entry ironclad
  • She owns a fleet of private medical transport vans.From the entry fleet
  • He has been arrested several times, transported in drone vans and brutalized in various detention facilities.2021 February 4, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, “Horror inside a kidnap drone”, in The Observer. From the entry drone
  • Next week, get your katanas, miniguns, Bulldog-Step vans, and Earth Spirits out.2015 March 23, Andrew Smith, “Start your R&R with some D&D”, in The Spokesman-Review. From the entry rp

Meaning of van

  1. 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.
  2. noun An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
  3. noun A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.

Full definition of van

Questions about the plural of van

What is the plural of van?
The plural of van is vans.
Is van countable?
Van is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: van (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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