parade

Definition

  • noun: a public celebration of a special day or event that usually includes many people and groups moving down a street by marching or riding in cars or on special vehicles (called floats)
  • noun: a pompous show
  • verb: to walk or march together in public especially as a way of celebrating or protesting something
  • verb: to cause to maneuver or march
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: marshal, exhibition

Examples

  • Television executives learned that violent shows attract more viewers, and pretty soon it was violence 'on parade' all day long.

  • They don't like having their personal problems 'paraded' in print for everyone to see.

  • We watched a 'parade of' cars go by our house on the way to the stadium for the game.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I had also once again my big mouth open. Vanessa why go your way? Where are you going to go? In 't final tournament of the pink parade in Passadena. They have 't shifted to this weekend, because all the flowers death on the go. It is the last chance that I will ever get, because to be seen. (..)
    2007 Bee Movie
  • (..) I do not listen to. Is that why you can not decide? - Doeg. I just hope she is in one. So they have a big parade every year of just flowers in Passadena? It is for each florist his dream, to participate in the tournament of roses. On a cart, which is surrounded by flowers. 'T Public welcomes that. (..)
    2007 Bee Movie