Meaning & use
caravan park
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Meanings
nouncountableBritish
An area where people can stay in caravans or similar vehicles, often with toilets, showers, and power supplies.
Grammar: Countable: say a caravan park, two caravan parks.
Patterns
- stay at a caravan park
- a caravan park near the beach
We spent a week at a caravan park on the coast.
The caravan park has a small shop and a laundry room.
They booked a caravan park for the summer holidays.
nouncountableBritish
An area of ground where caravans are kept permanently and people live in them all year.
Grammar: Countable; often used with live in or on.
Patterns
- live on a caravan park
- a permanent caravan park
Her grandparents live on a caravan park outside town.
The council is building more pitches on the caravan park.
Word forms
| plural | caravan parks |
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Common combinations
- stay at a caravan park
- We stayed at a caravan park near the lake.
- a caravan park site
- They chose a quiet caravan park site away from the road.
- book a caravan park
- I booked a caravan park for the first weekend in June.
- a holiday caravan park
- This holiday caravan park gets very busy in August.
- a static caravan park
- A static caravan park is open all year.
Synonyms and how they differ
- trailer park
- The usual American term, but in the US it often means a place for permanent homes rather than holidays.
- RV park
- American; used for places where people park motorhomes or campers, usually for short stays.
- campsite
- A more general word for anywhere you can pitch a tent or park a vehicle; a campsite may have no caravans at all.
Word family
- caravan noun
- A vehicle you tow behind a car, or a group of travelers crossing a desert.
- caravanning noun
- The activity of traveling and staying in a caravan.
Commonly confused: caravan park or trailer park? caravan park or campsite?
caravan park vs trailer park
In British English a caravan park is for holidays or caravans; in American English trailer park usually suggests a poor area of permanent mobile homes.
caravan park vs campsite
A campsite can be just for tents, while a caravan park is set up for vehicles with wheels and usually has power hook-ups.
Practice
Which sentence uses "caravan park" in the most natural British way?
Choose one answer.
A caravan park is a place where you stay in a caravan, so "spent two weeks at a caravan park by the sea" fits. Option 0 is wrong because tents belong to a campsite, and option 3 wrongly treats the phrase as a vehicle you can park.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “caravan park”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.