A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

(transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses). / (Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).

Clipping of vanguard.

(mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

(mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain. / A wing with which the air is beaten.

A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, or Evan.

A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.

(geography) A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey lakes, famous for its Chalcalburnus tarichi (syn. Alburnus tarichi) fish and the 10th century Armenian cathedral on Akhtamar Island.

Abbreviation of Vancouver.