 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
parade
noun
1: a ceremonial procession including people marching
2: an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things;
"a parade of strollers on the mall"; "a parade of
witnesses"
3: a visible display; "she made a parade of her sorrows"
verb
1: walk ostentatiously; "She parades her new husband around
town" [syn: {exhibit}, {march}]
2: march in a procession; "the veterans paraded down the
street" [syn: {troop}, {promenade}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parade \Pa*rade"\, noun [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an
assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled
to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See {Pare}, v.
t.]
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.
[PJC]
In state returned the grand parade. --Swift.
4. Hence: A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or
exhibition.
Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift.
5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]
When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
--Locke.
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.
--Wilhelm.
Syn: Ostentation; display; show.
Usage: {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.''
--Robertson. ''We are dazzled with the splendor of
titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of
victories.'' --Spectator.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parade \Pa*rade"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Paraded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Parading}.] [Cf. F. parader.]
1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
Parading all her sensibility. --Byron.
2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or
march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parade \Pa*rade"\, verb (used without an object)
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].
[1913 Webster +PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
205 Moby Thesaurus words for "parade":
advertise, affect, air, airing, alameda, amble, array, backpack,
beaten path, beaten track, berm, betoken, bicycle path, blazon,
blazon forth, boardwalk, boast, brag, brandish, bravura, breathe,
bridle path, brilliancy, bring forth, bring forward,
bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, caravan, catwalk,
cavalcade, column, constitutional, cortege, cosmorama, cyclorama,
dangle, daring, dash, declare, defile, demonstrate, demonstration,
develop, diorama, disclose, display, disport, divulge, dramatics,
dramatize, dress parade, eclat, emblazon, embody, enact, entourage,
esplanade, etalage, evidence, evince, exhibit, exhibition,
exhibitionism, expose, expose to view, exposition, express,
false front, fanfare, fanfaronade, fastwalk, figure, file,
file off, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, flyover,
foot pavement, footpath, footslog, footway, forced march, funeral,
garden path, gasconade, georama, give sign, give token,
go on parade, goose-step, groove, highlight, hike, hiking trail,
histrionics, hold up, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, jaunt,
light show, line, make clear, make plain, mall, manifest,
manifestation, march, march past, materialize, mean, motorcade,
mule train, mush, myriorama, pack train, pageant, pageantry,
panoply, panorama, pass in review, path, pathway, perambulate,
perform, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, phantasmagoria, pomp,
prado, present, presentation, procession, proclaim, produce,
promenade, psychedelic show, public walk, publish, put forth,
put forward, ramble, represent, representation, reveal, review,
roll out, run, runway, rut, saunter, schlep, set forth, sham,
shifting scene, shine, show, show forth, show off, showing-off,
sidewalk, sight, skimmington, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport,
spotlight, stage show, staginess, stream, stretch,
stretch the legs, string, stroll, strut, tableau, tableau vivant,
take a stretch, take a walk, theatrics, token, towing path,
towpath, track, trail, train, traipse, tramp, trot out, trottoir,
trudge, trumpet, trumpet forth, turn, unfold, vaunt, walk,
walking tour, walkway, wave
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
PARADE
PARallel Applicative Database Engine. A project at Glasgow
University to construct a transaction-processor in the
parallel {functional programming} language {Haskell} to run on
an {ICL} {EDS+} database machine.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Parade, SD
Zip code(s): 57647
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