- a group or procession of promenaders.
- a promenade.
verb (used with object), pa·rad·ed, pa·rad·ing.
verb (used without object), pa·rad·ed, pa·rad·ing.
- parade armor,
- parade bed,
- parade rest,
Origin of parade
Examples from the Web for parade
Women want a hot, young thing to parade around on their arm, too.Career-Minded Women Turn to Male Escorts For No-Strings Fun and (Maybe) Sex|Aurora Snow|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Circus parades often became as large a sight as the performance itself; one Barnum and Bailey parade stretched for three miles.We’re All Carnies Now: Why We Can’t Quit the Circus|Anthony Paletta|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Maybe we should have this parade as soon as we can organize it.
On Tuesday, we will once again have a fine Veterans Day parade in mid-Manhattan.
The advantage to having a parade on 9/11 is it would remind everybody that the war started with an attack on America.
A company may be mustered in the same manner on its own parade ground, the muster to follow the company inspection.Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911|United States War Department
There we sit on parade in these side-seater cars, and what we are is revealed so pitilessly to all who sit across from us.Vignettes Of San Francisco|Almira Bailey
Both these mills were to be erected on the open spot of ground formerly used as a parade by the marine battalion.
But time was speedy and the war correspondents were anxious to attend the parade.The Siege of Mafeking (1900)|J. Angus Hamilton.
If there is anything more magnificent than a firemen's parade, I don't know what it is.Back Home|Eugene Wood
- on display
- showing oneself off
Word Origin for parade
1650s, "a show of bravado," also "an assembly of troops for inspections," from French parade "display, show, military parade," from Middle French parade (15c.), or from Italian parate "a warding or defending, a garish setting forth," or Spanish parada "a staying or stopping," all from Vulgar Latin *parata, from Latin parere "arrange, prepare, adorn" (see pare), which developed widespread senses in Romanic derivatives. Non-military sense of "march, procession" is first recorded 1670s.
1680s (transitive), from parade (n.). Intransitive sense from 1748. Related: Paraded; parading.
see hit parade; rain on one's parade.