Van
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
Van can mean:
- Van, a road vehicle.
- Van, a rail vehicle, also called a boxcar.
- Los Van Van, a Cuban musical group.
- Van, a swedish musical group active in the late 1990s.
- Turkish Van a breed of cat
- Shortened form of vanguard.
- The VAN method for earthquake prediction
- a kind of Norse deity, plural Vanir
Van is also the name of several places:
In Turkey:
In the United Kingdom:
In the United States:
- Van, Arkansas
- Van, Kentucky
- Van, Michigan
- Van, Missouri
- Van, Ohio
- Van, Oregon
- Van, Pennsylvania
- Van, Texas
- Van, Utah
- Van, Virginia
- Van, West Virginia
van is also a common Dutch word meaning "of" or "from", e.g. as in Ludwig van Beethoven or George Vancouver, semantically and etymologically related to the German "von". Unlike the German "von", the Dutch "van" is not an indication of nobility. It is always written in lower case, except at the beginning of a sentence or if the first name is omitted, as in "The composer Van Beethoven", or in some Americanised names (e.g. Dick Van Dyke, Martin Van Buren) or in the case where the word is not of Dutch origin, as in Vietnamese names (e.g. Duong Van Minh, Nguyen Van Thieu).
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