Parade

Quick meaning: Parade is a noun meaning An organized display of a group of people, particularly.

Meaning

An organized display of a group of people, particularly.

More Meanings

1. A place reserved for such displays, particularly
2. The people who make up such a display, particularly
3. (UK, figurative, uncommon) A row of shops beside a street.
4. (intransitive) To take part in a parade, particularly:
5. (transitive) To cause to take part in a parade, particularly
6. (figurative) Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
7. (UK, figurative, now uncommon) Ellipsis of programme parade: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.

Example Sentences

Parade (Fr.), an appearance or shew, a bravado or vaunting offer.

...the most virtuous and laudable deed that his whole Life could make any parade of.

The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.

...the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files.

Word Forms

• parades
• parad
• parading
• paraded

Synonyms for parade

Depending on context, synonyms include show, exhibit, promenade, troop, march.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include march, troop, exhibit, promenade, procession, pilgrimage.

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