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Van.

Van. is the abbreviation of Vancouver.

Meaning of Vancouver

Proper noun

Vancouver (countable and uncountable, plural Vancouvers)

  1. A surname.
  2. A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
    • PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.2012 July 12, Nathan Pachal, “TomTom Congestion Index Useless for Metro Vancouver”, in The South Fraser Blog, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025
  3. A large island of British Columbia, Canada.
  4. A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
  5. A mountain between Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
  6. A mountain straddling the Canterbury and the West Coast regions in the Southern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand.

See all 9 meanings of Vancouver

Synonyms of Van.

Forms of Van.

alternative formVAN
alternative formVan
alternative formVAN.

Questions about Van.

What is Van. the abbreviation of?
Van. is the abbreviation of Vancouver.

Words near Van. in the dictionary

  1. van-dragger
  2. van-draggers
  3. van-dragging
  4. van-girl
  5. van-girls
  6. Van.
  7. Vana
  8. vanabin
  9. vanabins
  10. Vanacker
  11. Vanackers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Van. (page history and authors); Vancouver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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