PARADE

parade

(noun) a visible display; “she made a parade of her sorrows”

parade

(noun) a ceremonial procession including people marching

parade

(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; “a parade of strollers on the mall”; “a parade of witnesses”

parade, troop, promenade

(verb) march in a procession; “the veterans paraded down the street”

parade, exhibit, march

(verb) walk ostentatiously; “She parades her new husband around town”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.

(dated) A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.

Synonyms: demonstration, march

Any succession, series, or display of items.

A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.

(countable, uncountable) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).

Synonyms: display, exhibition, ostentation, show

(military) An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.

Synonym: muster

(obsolete) Posture of defense; guard.

The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

Synonym: parade ground

A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.

(zoology, collective) (uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.

Verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

(intransitive) To march in or as if in a procession.

(transitive) To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.

(transitive) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.

Synonym: show off

(transitive) To march past.

(transitive) To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.

(intransitive, military) To assemble to receive orders.

(military, transitive) To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.

(intransitive, of geese and other waterfowl) To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary

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Pa*rade", n. Etym: [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare, v. t.]

1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift.

4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. In state returned the grand parade. Swift.

5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke.

6. A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress.

– Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm.

Syn.

– Ostentation; display; show.

– Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. "It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power." Robertson. "We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories." Spectator.

Pa*rade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Parading.] Etym: [Cf. F. parader.]

1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. Parading all her sensibility. Byron.

2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

Pa*rade", v. i.

1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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