vanlife
English
editEtymology
editFrom van + life, popularized on social media in the 2010s.
Noun
editvanlife (uncountable)
- A lifestyle of living in a vehicle, especially a van, full or part-time.
- 2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker[1], retrieved 2021-08-23:
- 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.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- van-dwelling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia