parade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-rād'
ipa: /pəˈɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: parades
form: parading
form: paraded
form: paraded
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.
Senses: examples: text: ... the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post...
ref: 1637, Robert Monro, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment, page 64:
text: Hooper had been detailed to inspect the lines. The company was parading at 0730 hours with their kit-bags piled before the huts.
ref: 1945, Evelyn Waugh, “Prologue”, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: To take part in a parade
To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
examples: text: Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 26, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: No one fights a war in close-order formations any more but officers still love to force their men to parade, coming up with various plausible excuses for their enjoyment of command.
glosses: To take part in a parade
To march impressively or ostentatiously.
examples: text: After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
glosses: To take part in a parade
To march past.
examples: text: “What a delightful place Bath is,” said Mrs. Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired;
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: At one o’clock the troops were to come in; at two they were to be marshalled; till four they were to parade the parish; […]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Whitsuntide”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 123:
text: ... since it was no longer possible for him to parade the streets of the town, and be hailed with respect in the usual haunts of his leisure, this sailor felt himself destitute indeed.
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
text: They said nothing, but stared at each other with the horror of people exposed to all the torture of the demons who parade the African continent.
ref: 1971, Bessie Head, Maru, page 92:
glosses: To take part in a parade
To march through or along.
examples: text: The whole family paraded it together.
ref: 1753, Samuel Richardson, History of Sir Charles Grandison, volume V, page 46:
text: ... it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 19, in Little Women:
text: [...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 22, in The Dain Curse:
text: ... Mrs. Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, page 166:
text: Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.
ref: 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, page 381:
glosses: To take part in a parade
Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.
synonyms: word: promenade
extra: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others
examples: text: That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.
ref: 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 10:
glosses: To take part in a parade
To move slowly through or among.
raw_tags: of vehicles
examples: text: Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.
ref: 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, page 120:
glosses: To take part in a parade
To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.
raw_tags: of waterfowl
examples: text: In a few moments, we were paraded in the frigate’s gangway; the first lieutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, in an ill-cut coat and tarnished gold lace—coming up, and frowning upon us.
ref: 1847, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Omoo:
text: The men were paraded and briefly addressed by the colonel in my presence...
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, page 382:
glosses: To cause to take part in a parade, particularly
To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
examples: text: ... For she was not a sentimental mourner,
Parading all her sensibility...
ref: 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 16, St. 65, p. 96:
text: I doubt if any woman on earth has gotten better effects than she has with black, white and red. Not only that, she knows how to parade it when she gets it on.
ref: 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, page 243:
text: [...] I am sure neither of us cares to parade family business in a lawsuit.
ref: 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, page 150:
text: Like the railwayman, the industrialist who has set himself up with his own prestige fleet of shining lorries parading his name up and down the country, and has installed a transport manager to look after them, demands full utilisation of both...
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 46:
text: I felt a bit like a hunter who’s captured a unicorn and parades it through the town streets [...]
ref: 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, pages 166–167:
text: They’re parading ad men through Congress to convince the lawmakers that Free Market is the way to go, and that Harry Truman is in league with Karl Marx.
ref: 2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, page 452:
text: They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.
ref: 2013, Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden, Part 2, Ch. 23:
text: They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
glosses: To cause to take part in a parade, particularly
Synonym of show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession.
synonyms: word: show off
extra: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession
examples: text: The modern part that faces the sea is... paraded, well lighted, well drained.
ref: 1889, James John Hissey, A Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties, page 191:
glosses: To furnish with a parade or parades.
Derived terms: parade as
parader
paradingly
unparaded