parade

Meanings

Noun

• An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.
• A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.
• Any succession, series, or display of items.
• A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
• Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).
• An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.
• Posture of defense; guard.
• The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
• A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
• A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.

Verb

• To march in or as if in a procession.
• To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.
• To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.
• To march past.
• To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.
• To assemble to receive orders.
• To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
• To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.

Origin

• Borrowing from French parade ("show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback"), from Spanish parada ("a halt, stop, pause, a parade"), from parar, from Latin parare ("to prepare, in {{der") and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn}}; see pare. Compare parry.