What is van?

  • (noun): Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts).
    Synonyms: avant-garde, vanguard, new wave
    See also — Additional definitions below

Van

A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or people.

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Van, Texas - Education
... The City of Van is served by the Van Independent School District and home to the Van High School Vandals ...
Van Gogh Museum - History
... Upon Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890, his work not sold fell into the possession of his brother Theo ... leaving the work in the possession of his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger ... The collection was inherited by her son Vincent Willem van Gogh in 1925, eventually loaned to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam where it displayed for many years, and was transferred to the ...
Obdam - Chronology
... 1503 - The van Duvenvoorde family becomes the Lordship of the town. 1610 - Birth of Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam Son of Jacob van Duvenvoorde van Wassenaer 1620 - Jacob van Duvenvoorde starts using the van Wassenaer family name and becomes Jacob van Duvenvoorde van ... Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam by Abraham Evertsz ...
Famous Inhabitants of Ommen
... Albertus van Raalte (1811–1876), preacher and founder of Holland, Michigan August Pieter van Groeningen (1866–1894), writer Johanna van Buren (1881–1981), poet C.J.E ...
Van Eyck
... Van Eyck (or van Eyck), also Van Eijk (or van Eijk) is a Dutch surname meaning "of Eyck" or "of Eijk" (literal translation "of the Oak tree") ...

More definitions of "van":

  • (noun): A truck with an enclosed cargo space.
  • (noun): The leading units moving at the head of an army.
    Synonyms: vanguard
  • (noun): A camper equipped with living quarters.
    Synonyms: caravan

Famous quotes containing the word van:

    I please
    To plant some more dew-wet anemones
    That they may weep.
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
    The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
    They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
    Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
    Dieman’s Land.
    —Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)

    [W]ith them we’ll beat little Van, Van, Van is a used up man.
    State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)