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Parade   /pərˈeɪd/   Listen
noun
Parade  n.  
1.
The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. Also called parade ground.
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.
Hence: Any imposing procession; the movement of any group of people marshaled in military order, especially a festive public procession, which may include a marching band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade. "In state returned the grand parade."
4.
Hence: A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or exhibition. "Be rich, but of your wealth make no 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.
Synonyms: 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." "We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories."


verb
Parade  v. t.  (past & past part. paraded; pres. part. parading)  
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  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 or in a public celebratory parade (3).





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"Parade" Quotes from Famous Books



... lays them down now to come out I don't know how long it'll take to get them back in place. We want to get this job finished. [Continues with a plaintive uplift of voice.] This is serious! Tell them to go on up Main Street with their Knights of Pythias parade, and come around some day when we haven't got our ...
— The Man from Home • Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson
... Sunday morning and the church parade was popular. Lady Frances and Quentin were walking together when Prince Ugo joined them. He looked hardly over twenty-five, his wavy black hair giving him a picturesque look. He wore no beard, and his dark skin was ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... thousand dinars, and if her father consent, 'tis well; if not, I will take her by force, in spite of him. When I return home, I will buy ten little slaves and clothes for myself such as are worn by kings and sultans and get a saddle of gold, set thick with precious jewels. Then I will mount and parade the city, with slaves before and behind me, while the people will salute me and call down blessings upon me: after which I will go to the Vizier, the girl's father, with slaves behind and before me, as well as on either hand. When the Vizier sees me, he will rise and seating ...
— Europa's Fairy Book • Joseph Jacobs
... of Kent was at the head of the army in British North America. Pleasure, however, was not the only occupation of that then brilliant capital, at whose head was one so much devoted to duty, that in its fulfilment he acquired the reputation of a martinet. This was the day of the early morning parade, particularly irksome in a cold climate to those who were obliged to turn out before daybreak in the bitter weather of mid-winter. At this day, also, there were frequent troopings of colours, marchings out, sham fights, and all the other martial ...
— Young Lion of the Woods - A Story of Early Colonial Days • Thomas Barlow Smith
... insured paid to the insurers more than the insurers paid to them; otherwise the business could not have been conducted. This they cheerfully admitted; indeed, they proudly affirmed it. In fact, insurance companies were the only professional gamblers that had the incredible hardihood to parade their enormous winnings as an inducement to play against their game. These winnings ("assets," they called them) proved their ability, they said, to pay when they lost; and that was indubitably true. What they did not prove, unfortunately, ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce


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