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parade

[puh-reyd]

noun

a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.

a military ceremony involving the formation and marching of troop units, often combined with saluting the lowering of the flag at the end of the day.

the assembly of troops for inspection or display.

a place where troops regularly assemble for inspection or display.

a continual passing by, as of people, objects, or events: the parade of pedestrians past the office; the parade of the seasons.

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an ostentatious display: to make a parade of one's religious beliefs.

Chiefly British.

a group or procession of promenaders.

a promenade.

Fortification. the level space forming the interior or enclosed area of a fortification.

Fencing. a parry.

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verb (used with object)

10.

to walk up and down on or in.

11.

to make parade of; display ostentatiously.

12.

to cause to march or proceed for display.

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verb (used without object)

13.

to march in a procession.

14.

to promenade in a public place, especially in order to show off.

15.

to assemble in military order for display.

16.

to assume a false or misleading appearance: international pressure that parades as foreign aid.

Origin:
1650–60; < French, Middle French < Spanish parada a stop, stopping place, noun use of feminine of parado, past participle of parar to stop, end < Latin parāre to set. See compare, parry, -ade¹

Related forms

pa·rade·ful, adjective

pa·rade·less, adjective

pa·rade·like, adjective

pa·rad·er, noun

pa·rad·ing·ly, adverb

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un·pa·rad·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
11. show, flaunt, flourish.

Antonyms
11. conceal.

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Example Sentences

The streets of the city are a non-stop parade of humanity.

One in every university across the country would be enough to make a parade from coast to coast.

The madrinha of a samba school is sometimes topless, but she is one of hundreds of people in each parade.

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The streets of the city are a non-stop parade of humanity.

One in every university across the country would be enough to make a parade from coast to coast.

The madrinha of a samba school is sometimes topless, but she is one of hundreds of people in each parade.

Like a flash of swords, a herd of sable horns parade across the savanna.

But in that case you have a problem with the aesthetics of the parade.

Below see archival footage of the parade of cars and other celebrants took to the new bridge on opening ceremony.

Don't fret: you can easily make one out of toilet paper, which will also help offset the lack of public urinals on parade day.

The boss says that he will march in a parade with anyone he pleases.

The astonishing part was the parade of senior faculty members offering condolences for the outcome.

Promising to be a prolonged spectacle, it was launched with a parade of scores of prominent reformists in prison garb.

The parade of nations was the largest ever with more teams and more nations than last year.

They can't stand for anyone to rain on their parade.

Manure from horses in the parade was sold to local farms.

Next up, was the parade of oversized moose warning signs, some complete with flashing caution lights.

Scientific conferences rarely start with a parade of elephants.

If a prediction turns out right, you'll be commended and your family members will throw a parade in your honor.

The government cancelled its annual military parade the next day, citing the lack of security.

Their annual parade drew more contingents than ever before, with about.

But that would overlook the left's capacity to rain on its own parade.

Parade goers disperse into the afternoon to enjoy the last hours of celebration.

His parade of witnesses has failed to develop any testimony on.

No matter how many human resources people you parade around campus will change any of this.

The past few months have seen a parade of proposed corporate marriages in all sorts of gee-whiz industries, from.

Fasnacht's traditional lampion parade features revelers in artistic, outsize masks.

Not to rain on your patriotic parade plans any more, but you can't count on recycling the smoky remnants either:.

But the remix artists' latest mashup will wallop you with a relentless parade of ghouls getting.

Detail photographs let you mix things up once in a while, and that's often a welcome relief in the long parade of faces.

Intel has joined the parade of companies trying to beam video to your.

They conduct a decorous courtship in which they parade before their chosen belles.

By day five you have houseflies, then more beetles and so on-an endless parade of insects.

So go crash a white wedding, find a foam-filled dance floor or join a psychedelic parade.

At first the narwhals parade past in pods of eight or ten, then in grand processions of hundreds.

There's a tractor parade in the morning, where all the farmers decorate their tractors and drive down the street.

While this may have been a cause for national celebration in simpler times, the parade has largely moved on.

The press speculated that their stockier sisters must surely have been excused from the parade.

Photos include monuments, the parade route, and the royal coach.

But few on the trade-show floor looked worried about patents raining on their parade.

On a nearby parade ground, preparations are underway for a graduation ceremony that will take place in a few days.

Whether this is the conclusion of the lengthy parade of litigation remains to be seen.

Outside, a group of angry youths parade around the block, shouting anti-government slogans.

Bloons parade mindlessly down predetermined paths, and you have to pop them before they get all the way across the screen.

When written out it resembles a parade of prancing mythological figures.

But the latest crop of curmudgeons fail to acknowledge that there is not much new in this parade of the preposterous.

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World English Dictionary

parade (pəˈreɪd)

—n
1.	an ordered, esp ceremonial, march, assembly, or procession, as of troops being reviewed: on parade
2.	Also called: parade ground a place where military formations regularly assemble
3.	a visible show or display: to make a parade of one's grief
4.	a public promenade or street of shops
5.	a successive display of things or people
6.	the interior area of a fortification
7.	a parry in fencing
8.	rain on someone's parade to hinder someone's enjoyment; upset someone's plans
9.	on parade
	a. on display
	b. showing oneself off

—vb (when intr, often foll by through or along)
10.	to walk or march, esp in a procession (through): to parade the streets
11.	(tr) to exhibit or flaunt: he was parading his medals
12.	(tr) to cause to assemble in formation, as for a military parade
13.	(intr) to walk about in a public place

[C17: from French: a making ready, a setting out, a boasting display; compare Italian parata, Spanish parada, all ultimately from Latin parāre to prepare]

pa'rader

—n

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Word Origin & History

parade

1656, "a show of bravado," also "an assembly of troops for inspections," from Fr. parade "display, show, military parade," from M.Fr. parade (15c.), or from It. parate "a warding or defending, a garish setting forth," or Sp. parada "a staying or stopping," all from V.L. *parata, from L. parer "arrange,

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prepare, adorn" (see pare), which developed widespread senses in Romanic derivatives. Non-military sense of "march, procession" is first recorded 1673. The verb is from 1686.

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Computing Dictionary

PARADE definition

PARallel Applicative Database Engine. A project at Glasgow University to construct a transaction-processor in the parallel functional programming language Haskell to run on an ICL EDS+ database machine.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

parade

see hit parade; rain on one's parade.