parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-rād'
ipa: /pəˈɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: parades
form: Pde
form: parad
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: 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...
ref: 1642, Henry Hexham, The Principles of Art Military, volume II, page 31:
text: And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim
Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd
To thir night watches in warlike Parade,
When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake...
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 779-782:
text: See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade,
Under their Colours stand displaid:
Each Regiment in order grows,
That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.
ref: 1681, Andrew Marvell, “Upon Appleton House...”, Miscellaneous Poems, p. 87, St. 39
text: The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance... Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.
ref: 1922, Willa Cather, chapter 17, in One of Ours:
text: Verrall... seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Ch. 18”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life. The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face. Its ugliness is part of its essence...
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An organized display of a group of people, particularly
Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
synonyms: word: military parade
extra: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times
examples: text: They went up with a Parade of 9 or 10 Coaches.
ref: 1673–4, Duke of Lauderdale, Lauderdale Papers, Vol. III, p. 36
text: When a procession is exceptionally large it is called a Parade.
ref: 1888, James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, volume II, page 580:
text: The strikers had announced a parade for Tuesday morning, but Colonel Nixon had forbidden it, the newspapers said.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “[HTTP://WWW.GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/1156/1156-H/1156-H.HTM CHAPTER 27]”, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: The author became aware of the term "beadwhore" while viewing a Mardi Gras parade[…] You can't catch anything with those beadwhores around. Even cute kids on the shoulders of their fathers can't compete with boobs.
ref: 1995, Nancy J. Herman, Deviance, page 388:
text: Thanksgiving Day parade
text: Mummers Parade
text: ticker-tape parade
text: The Parade of the Marksmen at the Hanover Schützenfest each July is one of the longest regular parades in the world.
glosses: An organized display of a group of people, particularly
A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
glosses: An organized display of a group of people, particularly
Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.
synonyms: word: gaggle
extra: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults
glosses: An organized display of a group of people, particularly
Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.
synonyms: word: herd
extra: A group of elephants when on the move
examples: text: Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.
ref: 1704, John Harris, Lexicon Technicum, Vol. I, s.v:
text: When Barracks are occupied by Troops, the Yards and Parades are to be swept, rolled, and kept clean by them.
ref: 1844, The Queen's Regulations & Orders for the Army, page 240:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A place reserved for such displays, particularly
Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.
synonyms: word: parade ground
extra: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills
examples: text: This Square is calcled the Parade.
ref: 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, page 219:
text: ...at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 47, in Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.
ref: 1905 March 28, Daily Chronicle, p. 4
text: After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.
ref: 1914, G. K. Chesterton, “The God of the Gongs”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 216:
glosses: A place reserved for such displays, particularly
Synonym of promenade: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades.
synonyms: word: promenade
extra: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades
examples: text: His shop is located in Chester Pde.
glosses: A place reserved for such displays, particularly
Synonym of road, used in place names.
synonyms: word: road
word: used in place names
examples: text: The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.
ref: 1844, The Queen's Regulations & Orders for the Army, page 260:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The people who make up such a display, particularly
The body of soldiers thus assembled.
examples: text: We saw a great Parade or kind of Meeting.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque..., page 126:
text: ‘Did she go into that parade of people?’ said Ingram.
ref: 1873, William Black, Princess of Thule, page 265:
glosses: The people who make up such a display, particularly
The body of promenaders thus assembled.
examples: text: ...the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files...
ref: 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ecscybalauron (Εκσκυβαλαυρον), p. 282
text: Parade (Fr.), an appearance or shew, a bravado or vaunting offer.
ref: 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, s.v:
text: Formes little Different from those of a Gally, to no more Thriving an Intention in reference to the Publick, Then Apothecaries paynt and adorn their Shops which is to delude the Ignorant, and hide from Inspection such Arts as lye more in Parade then Substance.
ref: 1659, Francis Osborne, “Conjectural Paradoxes”, in A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes..., page 92:
text: ...the most virtuous and laudable deed that his whole Life could make any parade of...
ref: 1661, Abraham Cowley, A Vision Concerning His Late Pretended Highnesse Cromwell the Wicked, page 58:
text: What good Conduct does he shew! what Patience exercise! what Subtilty leave untry’d! what Concealment of his Faults! what Parade of his Vertues! what Government of his Passions!
ref: 1700, Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage, page 67:
text: Be rich, but of your Wealth make no Parade;
At least, before your Master’s Debts are paid.
ref: 1801, Jonathan Swift, untitled poem, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, volume II, page 420:
text: ... with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, chapter 9, in Emma, volume I:
text: Another answers, ‘Let him be,
⁠He loves to make parade of pain,
⁠That with his piping he may gain
The praise that comes to constancy.’
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: Under all her parade of gallantry he divined a great weariness of spirit, a great longing to be at peace with the world...
ref: 1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 55, in The Well of Loneliness, →OCLC, →OCLC, book 5, section 2, page 497:
text: ... he applied himself to his Bible morning and night. Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.
ref: 1993, Carol Shields, chapter 3, in The Stone Diaries, page 85:
text: Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink.
Jen: Oh. Oh!
Roy: Yeah...
Jen: Which sink?
Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house.
Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.
ref: 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
text: ... there was a degree of order in the books, a parade of Loeb classics, archaeology, ancient history.
ref: 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, page 325:
text: The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
glosses: Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
synonyms: word: show
extra: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around
examples: text: Most new shopping centres... have broken away from the old strip parades which usually face each other across heavy inter-town traffic.
ref: 1968, Roger Kenneth Cox, Retail Site Assessment, page 15:
glosses: A row of shops beside a street.
examples: text: Scottish Programme Parade
ref: 1947 May 2, Radio Times, p. 8
text: Listen to your regional Programme Parade at 8.10 a.m. daily.
ref: 1948, BBC West, Broadcasting in West::
glosses: Ellipsis of programme parade: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.
Hyponyms: sense: military assembly
word: muster
sense: public procession
word: demonstration
sense: row of shops
word: strip mall
Derived terms: antiparade
change parade
church parade
emu parade
fashion parade
hat parade
hit parade
hold up the parade
identification parade
identity parade
military parade
miniparade
monkey parade
monkeys' parade
on parade
parade attire
parade day
parade drum
parade duty
paradeful
paradegoer
parade-goer
parade ground
parade horse
parade lap
paradeless
parade letter
paradelike
parade major
parade march
parade marshal
parade officer
parade of horribles
parade of horrors
parade order
parade passed someone by
parade pavement
parader
parade rest
parade ring
parade square
parade step
parade uniform
piss on someone's parade
post parade
preparade
pride parade
queer parade
rain on one's parade
rain on someone's parade
shit parade
sick parade
techno parade
ticker tape parade
undress parade
victory parade
water parade