parade

[Pa*rade·]

A parade is a group of people marching in ceremony, celebration, or protest. Often a parade involves fire trucks, costumed adults throwing candy to children, baton twirlers, and members of the armed forces.

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The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

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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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.

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. 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. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade.
4. 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.
In state returned the grand parade.
5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]
When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
6. A public walk; a promenade. 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. Syn. -- Ostentation; display; show. -- 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.

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.
Parading all her sensibility.
2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

Parade

Pa*rade", v. i. 1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place. 2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.

The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.

To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

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Usage Examples

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

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Other Usage Examples

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.