parade
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: parades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paraded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paraded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ... the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post...
Hooper had been detailed to inspect the lines. The company was parading at 0730 hours with their kit-bags piled before the huts.
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: “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;
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; […]
... 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.
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.
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The whole family paraded it together.
... 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.
[...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.
... 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.
Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
transitive
examples: That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.
gloss: To take part in a parade
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.
gloss: To cause to take part in a parade, particularly
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
The men were paraded and briefly addressed by the colonel in my presence...
gloss: To cause to take part in a parade, particularly
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: ... For she was not a sentimental mourner,
Parading all her sensibility...
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.
[...] I am sure neither of us cares to parade family business in a lawsuit.
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...
I felt a bit like a hunter who’s captured a unicorn and parades it through the town streets [...]
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.
They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.
They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
gloss: To furnish with a parade or parades.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The modern part that faces the sea is... paraded, well lighted, well drained.
Derived words: parader
parade as
paradingly
unparaded
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