Pageant
['pædʒ(ə)nt] or ['pædʒənt]
Definition
(noun.) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes.
(noun.) a rich and spectacular ceremony.
Checker: Wilbur--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spectacle, show, display, parade.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pomp, procession, exhibition, display, spectacle, show, ceremony
ANT:Dream, illusion, phantasmagoria, mockery
Inputed by Ezra
Definition
n. a showy exhibition: a spectacle: a fleeting show: (orig.) a platform on four wheels for the purpose of representing plays &c.—adj. showy: pompous.—n. Page′antry splendid display: pompous spectacle.
Inputed by Edna
Examples
- We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even this day's pageant had not proceeded without the consent of the despised Jew, who furnished the means. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Brilliant arc lamps, rivaling the sun in power, make night into day, and produce along our streets coruscations, silhouettes, and dancing shadows in spectacular and unceasing pageants. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When Percy MacKaye pleads for pageants in which the people themselves participate, he offers an opportunity for expressing some of the lusts of the city in the form of an art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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