Definition of Parade

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Parade

The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.

That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen.

Posture of defense; guard.

A public walk; a promenade.

To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.

To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.

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Parade Quotations

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
Kate Moss

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
Sylvester Stallone

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand

Parade Translations

parade in Dutch is pralen, paraderen, pronken, prijken
parade in French is parader, parade
parade in German is Exerzierplatz, Parade
parade in Italian is parata
parade in Portuguese is parada
parade in Spanish is desfile
parade in Swedish is parad, promenadplats

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