Meaning of promenade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. walk, stroll
2. A prom (dance).
   formal
3. outing, excursion
4. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
5. promenade (place where one takes a walk for leisure)
6. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
7. vacation, holiday
8. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
9. walk in the park, stroll in the park (something easy)

Equivalents

Examples

“they told him to think no more of the matter , and to try his fortune in another promenade”

“His morning promenade.”

“Down in the arena, though, it was business as semi-normal with the band members making their traditional promenade through the crowd to a small in-the-round stage with a colourful player piano taking up most of the room.”

“The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.”

“By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.”

“Haussmann’s remodelling brought about the boulevards, the building lots, the promenades and street planting that remain inimitably characteristic of Paris.”

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