Meaning of Parade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An organized display of a group of people, particularly
   countable, uncountable
2. Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
   countable, uncountable
3. Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.
   uncommon
4. parade (intentional, planned march)
5. A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
   countable, uncountable
6. parade, march
7. Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
8. parry
9. Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
10. save
11. A place reserved for such displays, particularly
    countable, uncommon, uncountable
12. Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.
    countable, uncommon, uncountable
13. halt
14. Synonym of promenade: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades.
    countable, dated, uncountable
15. Synonym of road, used in place names.
    countable, uncommon, uncountable
16. The people who make up such a display, particularly
    countable, uncountable
17. The body of soldiers thus assembled.
    countable, uncommon, uncountable
18. The body of promenaders thus assembled.
    countable, uncountable
19. Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
20. A row of shops beside a street.
    UK, countable, figuratively, uncommon, uncountable
21. Ellipsis of programme parade: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, figuratively, uncommon, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens...”

“And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd To thir night watches in warlike Parade, When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake...”

“See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade, Under their Colours stand displaid: Each Regiment in order grows, That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.”

“The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance... Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.”

“Verrall... seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.”

“A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life. The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face. Its ugliness is part of its essence...”

“They went up with a Parade of 9 or 10 Coaches.”

“When a procession is exceptionally large it is called a Parade.”

“The strikers had announced a parade for Tuesday morning, but Colonel Nixon had forbidden it, the newspapers said.”

“The author became aware of the term "beadwhore" while viewing a Mardi Gras parade[…] You can't catch anything with those beadwhores around. Even cute kids on the shoulders of their fathers can't compete with boobs.”

“Thanksgiving Day parade”

“Mummers Parade”

“ticker-tape parade”

“The Parade of the Marksmen at the Hanover Schützenfest each July is one of the longest regular parades in the world.”

“Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.”

“When Barracks are occupied by Troops, the Yards and Parades are to be swept, rolled, and kept clean by them.”

“This Square is calcled the Parade.”

“...at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.”

“Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.”

“After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.”

“His shop is located in Chester Pde.”

“While my mother and sisters decorated our sukkah and cooked meals for the parade of guests who would soon come to visit, my father would walk the streets of our neighborhood, shopping for the "Four Species"”

“The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.”

“We saw a great Parade or kind of Meeting.”

“‘Did she go into that parade of people?’ said Ingram.”

“...the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files...”

“Parade (Fr.), an appearance or shew, a bravado or vaunting offer.”

“Formes little Different from those of a Gally, to no more Thriving an Intention in reference to the Publick, Then Apothecaries paynt and adorn their Shops which is to delude the Ignorant, and hide from Inspection such Arts as lye more in Parade then Substance.”

“...the most virtuous and laudable deed that his whole Life could make any parade of...”

“What good Conduct does he shew! what Patience exercise! what Subtilty leave untry’d! what Concealment of his Faults! what Parade of his Vertues! what Government of his Passions!”

“Be rich, but of your Wealth make no Parade; At least, before your Master’s Debts are paid.”

“... with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.”

“Another answers, ‘Let him be, ⁠He loves to make parade of pain, ⁠That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’”

“Under all her parade of gallantry he divined a great weariness of spirit, a great longing to be at peace with the world...”

“... he applied himself to his Bible morning and night. Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.”

“Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. Jen: Oh. Oh! Roy: Yeah... Jen: Which sink? Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.”

“... there was a degree of order in the books, a parade of Loeb classics, archaeology, ancient history.”

“The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.”

“Most new shopping centres... have broken away from the old strip parades which usually face each other across heavy inter-town traffic.”

“Scottish Programme Parade”

“Listen to your regional Programme Parade at 8.10 a.m. daily.”

“...in case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his brest to caveat...”

“[The Tutor] should accustom him to make as much as is possible a true Judgment of Men by those Marks which serve best to shew what they are, and give a Prospect into their Inside, which often shews it self in little Things, especially when they are not in Parade, and upon their Guard.”

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