parade
(pəreɪd )
Word forms: parades , parading , paraded
1. countable noun B2
A parade is a procession of people or vehicles moving through a public place in order to celebrate an important day or event.
A military parade marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Synonyms: procession, march, ceremony, pageant
2. verb
When people parade somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them.
More than four thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded down the Champs Elysees. [VERB preposition/adverb]
Everybody was beginning to parade back to the village. [VERB preposition/adverb]
Synonyms: march, process, file, promenade
3. variable noun [oft on NOUN]
Parade is a formal occasion when soldiers stand in lines to be seen by an officer or important person, or march in a group.
He had them on parade at six o'clock in the morning.
Morning parade was in progress on the parade ground.
4. verb [usually passive]
If flags or statues are paraded, they are carried in a procession.
Banners were paraded from church to church on feast days. [be VERB-ed preposition]
5. verb [usually passive]
If prisoners are paraded through the streets of a town or on television, they are shown to the public, usually in order to make the people who are holding them seem more powerful or important.
Five leading fighter pilots have been captured and paraded before the media. [be VERB-ed preposition]
6. verb [usually passive]
If you say that someone parades a person, you mean that they show that person to others only in order to gain some advantage for themselves.
Children are paraded on television alongside the party leaders to win votes. [be VERB-ed]
7. verb
If people parade something, they show it in public so that it can be admired.
Valentino is keen to see celebrities parading his clothes at big occasions. [VERB noun]
8. verb
If someone parades, they walk about somewhere in order to be seen and admired.
I love to put on a bathing suit and parade on the beach. [VERB preposition/adverb]
They danced and paraded around. [VERB preposition/adverb]
9. verb
If someone parades a real or pretended feeling or quality, they draw attention to themselves by displaying it.
They parade their virtuous beliefs and hide their vices. [VERB noun]
10. verb
If you say that something parades as or is paraded as a good or important thing, you mean that some people say that it is good or important but you think it probably is not.
He paraded his cut in interest rates as a small victory. [VERB noun + as]
...all the fashions that parade as modern movements in art. [VERB + as]
11. countable noun
If you talk about a parade of people or things, you mean that there is a series of them that seems never to end.
When I ask Nick about his childhood, he remembers a parade of baby-sitters. [+ of]
...an endless parade of advertisements. [+ of]
12. countable noun
A parade is a short row of shops, usually set back from the main street. [British]
13. countable noun
Parade is used as part of the name of a street.
...Queens Hotel, Clarence Parade, Southsea.
14. See also hit parade, identity parade
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Idioms:
rain on someone's parade [journalism]
to do something which spoils someone's plan, usually a plan that is very important to them
It's irritating that he could rain on my parade by stealing the record before me.
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Collocations:
homecoming parade military parade parade route street parade victory parade watch a parade
But yesterday he modestly played down his achievement after taking part in the homecoming parade with his fellow members of the task force.
The Sun
Nor did their manager consider for a moment milking national goodwill with a homecoming parade.
Times, Sunday Times
A homecoming parade kicks off festivities at 5 p.m. today.
Houston Chronicle
There will be no homecoming parade, with a grounded approach being seen as key to the nation's progress to the last four of the tournament.
Times, Sunday Times
The high school has a homecoming parade every fall.
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He took up the drums after seeing a military parade and joined his high school marching band.
Times, Sunday Times
He was giving awards at a military parade.
Times, Sunday Times
A lavish three-day programme will include a banquet and a military parade.
Times, Sunday Times
The opposition has also forced the government to cancel the annual military parade.
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Subsequent activities were followed including a military parade involving more than 1,000 military personnel, 71 aircraft and 168 vehicles.
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Office blocks near the parade route have been sealed, commuter trains suspended and roads blocked.
Times,Sunday Times
Yesterday crowds were already lining the parade route at 8am.
Times, Sunday Times
A map of their parade route was found in the vehicle.
Times, Sunday Times
People lining the parade route were asked to bring warm coats, which were loaded into lorries to be distributed in the hardest-hit neighbourhoods.
Times, Sunday Times
The service has removed the handles from thousands of doors that lead into rooms overlooking the parade route.
Times, Sunday Times
If they win, they get a full-blooded street parade.
Times, Sunday Times
It was also the first year the street parade was staged.
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They play at various functions and takes part in the annual village street parade.
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The festival features a street parade, stalls and celebrations throughout the city.
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On her arrival in her home town, she was accorded a street parade.
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The soldiers know that they won't go home to public adulation or a victory parade.
Times, Sunday Times
The global elite had effectively parted to make way for this victory parade.
Times,Sunday Times
Yesterday was their victory parade, a chance for an essentially undemonstrative nation to fly the flag of gratitude.
Times, Sunday Times
But only one of them has already booked the official victory parade.
The Sun
They assembled their massive armoury, cashed in their chits and awaited the victory parade.
Times, Sunday Times
The noise of these cars weaving through the small villages was startling - everyone came out to watch the parade.
Times, Sunday Times
I was four when we went with her one day to watch a parade.
Times, Sunday Times
By the afternoon the streets were lined with crowds five deep to watch a parade of military vehicles and two army bands.
Times, Sunday Times
Villagers and guests stand beside the road to watch the parade.
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In 1954, the village celebrated its centennial, and 20,000 people gathered to watch the parade.
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Translations:
Chinese: 游行, 游行
Japanese: パレード, 行進する
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