Parade
[pə'reɪd] or [pə'red]
Definition
(noun.) a visible display; 'she made a parade of her sorrows'.
(noun.) a ceremonial procession including people marching.
(noun.) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; 'a parade of strollers on the mall'; 'a parade of witnesses'.
(verb.) march in a procession; 'the veterans paraded down the street'.
(verb.) walk ostentatiously; 'She parades her new husband around town'.
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Definition
(v. t.) The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Posture of defense; guard.
(v. t.) A public walk; a promenade.
(v. t.) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
(v. t.) To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.
(v. i.) To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.
(v. i.) To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ostentation, display, ceremony, show, pompous exhibition.[2]. Pageant, spectacle, pompous procession.
v. a. Display, flaunt, show off.
v. n. Make a show, show off.
Checker: Mitchell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vaunt, flaunt, display
ANT:Suppress, veil, conceal
SYN:Vaunting, flaunting, display, pomp, ostentation, show, pageant, procession,spectacle
ANT:Suppression, concealment, modesty, humility, simplicity, undemonstrativeness,plainness, retirement, unceremoniousness
Edited by Alison
Definition
n. the orderly arrangement of troops for exercise or inspection: a review of troops: the place where such a display takes place: that which is displayed: great or splendid show of any kind: a public walk or promenade.—v.t. to show off: to marshal in military order.—v.i. to march up and down as if for show: to pass in military order: to march in procession.
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Examples
- I did not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the wide awakes --Republicans--in their rooms, and superintended their drill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was famous in field-sports, famous at a song, famous on parade; free with his money, which was bountifully supplied by his father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The DUSTPAN SOCIETY will meet on Wednesday next, and parade in the upper story of the Club House. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We continued punctual at parade for more than a fortnight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- As soon as we had left the mess-room, I told Worcester that he really must be at parade by eight o'clock to-morrow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was the delay of a great deal of pleasure and parade. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She then joined them soon enough to see Lydia, with anxious parade, walk up to her mother's right hand, and hear her say to her eldest sister, Ah! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He never dreamed of disputing their pretensions, but did homage to the miserable Mumbo jumbo they paraded. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That satisfied Amy, and when she got home she found the vases paraded on the parlor chimney piece with a great bouquet in each. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No doubt, thought I, he thinks it was nothing to have paraded me up and down that stupid turnpike road, in the vain hope of seeing him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Economic Man--that lazy abstraction--is still paraded in the lecture room; the study of human nature has not advanced beyond the gossip of old wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At Chatham he followed the parades and drills with great assiduity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That's all right--but this parading her at the Opera's another thing. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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