Procession

Quick meaning: Procession is a noun meaning The act of progressing or proceeding.

Meaning

The act of progressing or proceeding.

More Meanings

1. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
2. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
3. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
4. (cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
5. (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
6. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
7. (transitive, law, US, North Carolina, Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).

Example Sentences

a procession of mourners

the Lord Mayor's procession

Here comes the towneſ-men, on Proceſſion, / To preſent your Highneſſe with the man.

In many a form I see thee oft In myriad manners are thy praises told In old processions carved on Grecian urns

Word Forms

• processions
• processioning
• processioned

Synonyms for procession

Depending on context, synonyms include process.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include march, parade, pilgrimage, suite, motorcade, trail.

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