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Definition parade

Etymology

Borrowing from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”); see pare. Compare parry, a doublet of parade.

Noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

1. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.
2. (dated) A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.
3. Any succession, series, or display of items.
4. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
5. (countable, uncountable) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).
6. (military) An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.
7. (obsolete) Posture of defense; guard.
8. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
9. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
10. (zoology, collective) (uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.

Verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

1. (intransitive) To march in or as if in a procession.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.
3. (transitive) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.
4. (transitive) To march past.
5. (transitive) To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.
6. (intransitive, military) To assemble to receive orders.
7. (military, transitive) To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
8. (intransitive, of geese and other waterfowl) To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.

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