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PARADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parade mean?
• PARADE (noun)
The noun PARADE has 3 senses:
1. a ceremonial procession including people marching
2. an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things
3. a visible display
Familiarity information: PARADE used as a noun is uncommon.
• PARADE (verb)
The verb PARADE has 2 senses:
1. walk ostentatiously
2. march in a procession
Familiarity information: PARADE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ceremonial procession including people marching
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("parade" is a kind of...):
procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parade"):
callathump; callithump; callithump parade (a noisy boisterous parade)
Derivation:
parade (march in a procession)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An extended (often showy) succession of persons or things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
a parade of witnesses
Hypernyms ("parade" is a kind of...):
succession (a group of people or things arranged or following in order)
Derivation:
parade (march in a procession)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A visible display
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
she made a parade of her sorrows
Hypernyms ("parade" is a kind of...):
display; exhibit; showing (something shown to the public)
Derivation:
parade (walk ostentatiously)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it parades Past simple: paraded
Past participle: paraded
-ing form: parading
Sense 1
Meaning:
Walk ostentatiously
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
She parades her new husband around town
Hypernyms (to "parade" is one way to...):
walk (make walk)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sentence example:
The horses parade across the field
Derivation:
parade (a visible display)
Sense 2
Meaning:
March in a procession
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
the veterans paraded down the street
Hypernyms (to "parade" is one way to...):
march; process (march in a procession)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The children parade to the playground
Derivation:
parade (a ceremonial procession including people marching)
parade (an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things)
parader (walks with regular or stately step)
Context examples
This is a parade, he cried, which does one good; it gives such an elegance to misfortune!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
There is to be no form or parade—a sort of gipsy party.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The other day, however, when I came on parade, I galloped up one line and down the other, but the deuce a glimpse could I get of that long nose of his!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That satisfied Amy, and when she got home she found the vases paraded on the parlor chimney piece with a great bouquet in each.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The inventor previously presented the device at the Bastille Day military parade earlier this year.
(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)
But the merit of the curricle did not all belong to the horses; Henry drove so well—so quietly—without making any disturbance, without parading to her, or swearing at them: so different from the only gentleman-coachman whom it was in her power to compare him with!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Rushworth was quite ready to retire, and make way for the fortunate young woman whom her dear son had selected; and very early in November removed herself, her maid, her footman, and her chariot, with true dowager propriety, to Bath, there to parade over the wonders of Sotherton in her evening parties; enjoying them as thoroughly, perhaps, in the animation of a card-table, as she had ever done on the spot; and before the middle of the same month the ceremony had taken place which gave Sotherton another mistress.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was the delay of a great deal of pleasure and parade.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She then joined them soon enough to see Lydia, with anxious parade, walk up to her mother's right hand, and hear her say to her eldest sister, Ah!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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