parade
pa|rade /pər'eɪd/ (parades parading paraded)
1 [N-COUNT]
A parade is a procession of people or vehicles moving through a public place in order to celebrate an important day or event.
A military parade marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue.
2 [VERB] V prep/adv
When people parade somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them.
More than four thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded down the Champs Elysee...
3 [N-VAR] oft on N
Parade is a formal occasion when soldiers stand in lines to be seen by an officer or important person, or march in a group.
He had them on parade at six o'clock in the morning...
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed prep
If prisoners are paraded through the streets of a town or on television, they are shown to the public, usually in order to make the people who are holding them seem more powerful or important.
Five leading fighter pilots have been captured and paraded before the media.
5 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If you say that someone parades a person, you mean that they show that person to others only in order to gain some advantage for themselves.
Children are paraded on television alongside the party leaders to win votes.
6 [VERB] V n
If people parade something, they show it in public so that it can be admired.
Valentino is keen to see celebrities parading his clothes at big occasions.
= show off
7 [VERB] V prep/adv, V prep/adv
If someone parades, they walk about somewhere in order to be seen and admired.
I love to put on a bathing suit and parade on the beach...
They danced and paraded around.
8 [VERB] V n as n, V as n
If you say that something parades as or is paraded as a good or important thing, you mean that some people say that it is good or important but you think it probably is not.
The Chancellor will be able to parade his cut in interest rates as a small victory...
...all the fashions that parade as modern movements in art.
9 [N-COUNT] N of n
If you talk about a parade of people or things, you mean that there is a series of them that seems never to end.
When I ask Nick about his childhood, he remembers a parade of baby-sitters.
...an endless parade of advertisements.
10 [N-COUNT]
A parade is a short row of shops, usually set back from the main street. (BRIT)
11 [N-IN-NAMES]
Parade is used as part of the name of a street.
...Queens Hotel, Clarence Parade, Southsea.
12
see also hit parade, identity paradehit pa|rade
[N-SING] the N
The hit parade is the list of CDs which have sold most copies over the previous week or month. (OLD-FASHIONED)
= chartsiden|tity pa|rade (identity parades)
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At an identity parade, a witness to a crime tries to identify the criminal from among a line of people. (BRIT; in AM, usually use line-up)pa|rade ground (parade grounds)
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A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
1 [N-COUNT]
A parade is a procession of people or vehicles moving through a public place in order to celebrate an important day or event.
A military parade marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue.
2 [VERB] V prep/adv
When people parade somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them.
More than four thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded down the Champs Elysee...
3 [N-VAR] oft on N
Parade is a formal occasion when soldiers stand in lines to be seen by an officer or important person, or march in a group.
He had them on parade at six o'clock in the morning...
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed prep
If prisoners are paraded through the streets of a town or on television, they are shown to the public, usually in order to make the people who are holding them seem more powerful or important.
Five leading fighter pilots have been captured and paraded before the media.
5 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If you say that someone parades a person, you mean that they show that person to others only in order to gain some advantage for themselves.
Children are paraded on television alongside the party leaders to win votes.
6 [VERB] V n
If people parade something, they show it in public so that it can be admired.
Valentino is keen to see celebrities parading his clothes at big occasions.
= show off
7 [VERB] V prep/adv, V prep/adv
If someone parades, they walk about somewhere in order to be seen and admired.
I love to put on a bathing suit and parade on the beach...
They danced and paraded around.
8 [VERB] V n as n, V as n
If you say that something parades as or is paraded as a good or important thing, you mean that some people say that it is good or important but you think it probably is not.
The Chancellor will be able to parade his cut in interest rates as a small victory...
...all the fashions that parade as modern movements in art.
9 [N-COUNT] N of n
If you talk about a parade of people or things, you mean that there is a series of them that seems never to end.
When I ask Nick about his childhood, he remembers a parade of baby-sitters.
...an endless parade of advertisements.
10 [N-COUNT]
A parade is a short row of shops, usually set back from the main street. (BRIT)
11 [N-IN-NAMES]
Parade is used as part of the name of a street.
...Queens Hotel, Clarence Parade, Southsea.
12
see also hit parade, identity paradehit pa|rade
[N-SING] the N
The hit parade is the list of CDs which have sold most copies over the previous week or month. (OLD-FASHIONED)
= chartsiden|tity pa|rade (identity parades)
[N-COUNT]
At an identity parade, a witness to a crime tries to identify the criminal from among a line of people. (BRIT; in AM, usually use line-up)pa|rade ground (parade grounds)
[N-COUNT]
A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.