vanlife

English

Etymology

van +‎ life, popularized on social media in the 2010s.

Noun

vanlife (uncountable)

1. 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.

   • 2020 July 3, Nellie Bowles, “The #Vanlife Business Is Booming”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Vanlife is an aesthetic trend, closer to the tiny-home movement, yet even richer, lusher and typically sexier.

Derived terms

• vanlifer

Further reading

• van-dwelling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia