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PARADE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A visible display

Example:

she made a parade of her sorrows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("parade" is a kind of...):

display; exhibit; showing (something shown to the public)

Derivation:

parade (walk ostentatiously)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A ceremonial procession including people marching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("parade" is a kind of...):

procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parade"):

callathump; callithump; callithump parade (a noisy boisterous parade)

Derivation:

parade (march in a procession)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An extended (often showy) succession of persons or things

Example:

a parade of witnesses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("parade" is a kind of...):

succession (a group of people or things arranged or following in order)

Derivation:

parade (march in a procession)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

March in a procession

Example:

the veterans paraded down the street

Synonyms:

parade; promenade; troop

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "parade" is one way to...):

march; process (march in a procession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children parade to the playground

Derivation:

parade (a ceremonial procession including people marching)

parade (an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things)

parader (walks with regular or stately step)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk ostentatiously

Example:

She parades her new husband around town

Synonyms:

exhibit; march; parade

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "parade" is one way to...):

walk (make walk)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The horses parade across the field

Derivation:

parade (a visible display)

Credits

 Context examples: 

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was so amazingly tired, and it was so odious to parade about the pump-room; and if she moved from her seat she should miss her sisters; she was expecting her sisters every moment; so that her dearest Catherine must excuse her, and must sit quietly down again.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I had no difficulty in taking my right place on parade, for there was a trooper with a red nose on a flea-bitten grey, and I had observed that my post was always immediately in front of him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The latter and I would have gone out to fly the great kite; but that I had still no other clothes than the anything but ornamental garments with which I had been decorated on the first day, and which confined me to the house, except for an hour after dark, when my aunt, for my health's sake, paraded me up and down on the cliff outside, before going to bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Emma could not think it too soon; for 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.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At such a moment, the arrival of her friend was a sincere pleasure to Elizabeth, though in the course of their meetings she must sometimes think the pleasure dearly bought, when she saw Mr. Darcy exposed to all the parading and obsequious civility of her husband.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In this room there was a wardrobe full of old-fashioned costumes with which Esther allowed her to play, and 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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That the general should come forward to solicit the alliance, or that he should even very heartily approve it, they were not refined enough to make any parading stipulation; but the decent appearance of consent must be yielded, and that once obtained—and their own hearts made them trust that it could not be very long denied—their willing approbation was instantly to follow.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He walked me up to my room slowly and gravely—I am certain he had a delight in that formal parade of executing justice—and when we got there, suddenly twisted my head under his arm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade; and Mrs. Elton, from the particulars detailed by her husband, thought it all extremely shabby, and very inferior to her own.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)