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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



... a thing distinct and apart; for in Paris neither men nor women are the dupes of the commonplaces by which people seek to throw a veil over their motives, or to parade a fine affectation of disinterestedness in their sentiments. In this country within a country, it is not merely required of a woman that she should satisfy the senses and the soul; she knows perfectly well that she has still greater ...
— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac
... these old countries. It got on the nerves of Europe. They knew what it all meant. It was an army that in recent times had waged three wars, all of conquest, and the unceasing tramp of its legions through the streets of Prussia, on the parade grounds of Prussia, had got into the Prussian head. The Kaiser, when he witnessed on a grand scale his reviews, got drunk with the sound of it. He delivered the law to the world as if Potsdam was another Sinai, and he was uttering the law from ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... veterans in cadence step. As a mere spectacle this march of the mightiest host the continent has ever seen was grand and imposing, but it was not as a spectacle alone that it affected the beholder. It was no holiday parade. It was an army of citizens on their way home after a long and terrible war. Their clothes were worn, and pierced with bullets, their banners had been torn with shot and shell, and lashed in the winds of many ...
— The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln • Helen Nicolay
... who were present in the Southern army at this time will bear record to the soldierly promptness of officers and men. On the evening of the 3d of May the camps were the scenes of noise, merriment, and parade: the bands played; the woods were alive; nothing disturbed the scene of general enjoyment of winter-quarters. On the morning of the 4th all this was changed. The camps were deserted; no sound was anywhere heard; the troops were twenty miles away, ...
— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke
... mansions of the affluent stood among pleasant lawns and shrubberies. It was late; for this had been a communion Sunday, and those far in advance, who had already reached the pretty and shady part of the street, were members of the churches where services had been shortest; though few in the long parade looked as if they had been attending anything very short, and many heads of families were crisp in their replies to the theological inquiries of their offspring. The men imparted largely a gloom to the itinerant concourse, most of them wearing hot, long black ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington


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