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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: parade
parade
n 1: a ceremonial procession including people marching
2: an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things;
“a parade of strollers on the mall”;
“a parade of
witnesses”
3: a visible display;
“she made a parade of her sorrows”
parade
v 1: walk ostentatiously;
“She parades her new husband around
town” [syn:
exhibit,
march]
2: march in a procession;
“the veterans paraded down the
street” [syn:
troop,
promenade]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Parade
Parade
\Pa*rade"\, n. [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. Also called
parade ground.
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2. (Mil.) 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.
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3. Hence: Any imposing procession; the movement of any group
of people marshaled in military order, especially a
festive public procession, which may include a marching
band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate
displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in
commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a
person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving
Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade.
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In state returned the grand parade. --Swift.
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4. Hence: A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or
exhibition.
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Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift.
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5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]
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When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
--Locke.
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6. A public walk; a promenade.
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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.
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Syn: Ostentation; display; show.
Usage:
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.
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Parade
\Pa*rade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Paraded; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Parading.] [Cf. F. parader.]
1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
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Parading all her sensibility. --Byron.
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2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or
march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.
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Parade
\Pa*rade"\, v. i.
1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by
walking in a public place.
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2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and
inspection; to form or march, as in review or in a public
celebratory parade[3].
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