Vanlife
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A lifestyle of living in a vehicle, especially a van, full or part-time. uncountable
"Vanlife is an aesthetic and a mentality and, people kept telling me, a “movement.” S. Lucas Valdes, the owner of the California-based company GoWesty, a prominent seller of Volkswagen-van parts, compared vanlife today to surfing a couple of decades ago."
Example
More examples"Vanlife is an aesthetic and a mentality and, people kept telling me, a “movement.” S. Lucas Valdes, the owner of the California-based company GoWesty, a prominent seller of Volkswagen-van parts, compared vanlife today to surfing a couple of decades ago."
Etymology
From van + life, popularized on social media in the 2010s.
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