Associations to the word «Parade»

Wiktionary

PARADE, noun. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
PARADE, noun. Any succession, series, or display of items.
PARADE, noun. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
PARADE, noun. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
PARADE, noun. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
PARADE, noun. (Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
PARADE, noun. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
PARADE, verb. (intransitive) To march or to display.
PARADE, verb. (transitive) To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
PARADE, verb. (transitive) To march past.
PARADE GROUND, noun. A large area of hard ground, usually of concrete or tarmac, where soldiers practice routine marching maneuvres.
PARADE GROUNDS, noun. Plural of parade ground
PARADE LAP, noun. (motorsport) A lap before a race begins, in which the drivers go relatively slowly around the track to warm up their tyres and ensure that conditions are safe.
PARADE OF HORRIBLES, noun. A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes.
PARADE OF HORRIBLES, noun. A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.

Dictionary definition

PARADE, noun. A ceremonial procession including people marching.
PARADE, noun. An extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; "a parade of strollers on the mall"; "a parade of witnesses".
PARADE, noun. A visible display; "she made a parade of her sorrows".
PARADE, verb. Walk ostentatiously; "She parades her new husband around town".
PARADE, verb. March in a procession; "the veterans paraded down the street".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn