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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



... Yet I never uttered a murmur. I was too profoundly aware of the fact that I was kept on sufferance to risk the slightest demonstration. I had developed a singular faculty for bearing pain, which I would parade before the other boys. Also, I had developed a relish for flaunting my martyrdom, for being an ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... home late, and did not dress for dinner. It was often so, and the omission was usually not allowed to pass by Carmen without notice, to which Henderson was sure to growl that he didn't care to be always on dress parade. Tonight Carmen was all graciousness and warmth. Henderson did not seem to notice it. He ate his dinner abstractedly, and responded only in monosyllables to her sweet attempts at conversation. The fact was that the day ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... entered the apartment in which the Duke sat, and announced that the Earl of Byerdale was in the antechamber. The Duke started up with an expression of joy, ordering him to be admitted instantly; and the Earl entered, assuming even an unusual parade of dignity in his step, and contriving to make his countenance look more than commonly severe and sneering, even though there was a marked smile upon it, as if he would imply that no slight pleasure attended his ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... After its parade, the infantry, whose part in the affair was finished, retraced their steps and took up a position on the other side of the field of manoeuvres, facing the north, and in front of rising ground, in preparation for ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... to the river the band was playing on the 'Varsity barge, and Mrs. Faulkner really began to enjoy herself. The flags flying from all the barges pleased her, and the smartness of the ladies made her compare the scene to church parade on a June morning in Hyde Park. I knew nothing about church parades and very little about Hyde Park, but I said that I thought this must beat anything in London. Then I got a chair for her and looked ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley


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