parade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a visible display

   They made a parade of their sorrows.

2. 2
   noun

   an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things

   a parade of strollers on the mall

3. 3
   verb

   march in a procession

   the veterans paraded down the street

4. 4
   verb

   walk ostentatiously

   The child parades their new wagon around town.

5. 5
   noun

   An organized display of a group of people, particularly

   There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens...

6. 6
   noun

   A place reserved for such displays, particularly

   Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.

7. 7
   noun

   The people who make up such a display, particularly

   While my mother and sisters decorated our sukkah and cooked meals for the parade of guests who would soon come to visit, my father would walk the streets of our neighborhood, shopping for the "Four Species"

8. 8
   noun

   Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.

   ...the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files...

Etymology

From French parade (“an ostentatious display, a military display”), from parer (“to beautify, prepare, take pride in”) + -ade probably under influence from earlier Italian parata (“preparation, a military parade, an ostentatious display”) and Latin magnō parātū (“with great preparation”). Various senses similarly influenced by earlier French and Italian uses. Doublet of pare.