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| pa·rade [ pə ráyd ] |
noun (plural pa·rades) |
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1. celebratory procession: an organized procession of people celebrating a special occasion and often including decorated vehicles or floats, a marching band, people twirling batons, and people on horseback
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2. display: a long moving line of people or things intended to be publicly displayed
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3. succession: a large number of people or things in succession
  a parade of visitors to the palace
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4. flamboyant display: a showy or ostentatious exhibition or display of something
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5. procession of troops: a march by troops along the streets or in a large area such as a square, usually as a celebration of an important event
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6. gathering of troops in formation: a formal gathering of a troop of soldiers in a regimented formation for a ceremonial march, inspection, or training
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7. people in parade: people marching in a parade
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8. military
Same as parade ground
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9. parry: in fencing, a parry
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verb (past and past participle pa·rad·ed, present participle pa·rad·ing, 3rd person present singular pa·rades) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb go on festive procession: to march in a festive public parade, or make somebody march in a parade
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2. transitive and intransitive verb assemble for military parade: to gather for and march in a military parade, or make troops take part in a parade
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3. transitive verb show somebody or something off: to display somebody or something proudly and ostentatiously
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4. intransitive verb walk around to be seen: to walk or stroll around in public, especially in order to be seen or admired
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5. transitive and intransitive verb claim to be something else: to present something as better than it really is, or appear falsely as better
parading old ideas as new reforms
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| [Mid-17th century. Via French< Spanish parada "stopping (a horse)" < Latin parare "prepare"] |
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rain on somebody's parade to spoil things for somebody (informal)
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