Parade | Mean of parade in English Dictionary

/pəˈreɪd/

• 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)
1. the annual Thanksgiving Day parade
2. After the team won the championship, the city threw/had a parade for them.
3. The town will put on a parade.
4. The marching band lined up for the homecoming parade.
5. the parade route
• a military ceremony in which soldiers march or stand in lines so that they can be examined by officers or other important people
• a long series of people or things that come one after the other
1. We had a parade of visitors this morning. [=we had many visitors this morning]
2. The prosecution called a parade of witnesses to the stand.
3. We watched a parade of cars go by our house on the way to the stadium for the game.

• a street with a row of small shops
1. a shopping parade
• shown or displayed especially in a way that attracts attention or notice
1. Her new diamond engagement ring was on parade for all her friends to stare at.
2. Television executives learned that violent shows attract more viewers, and pretty soon it was violence on parade all day long.
• marching or standing in a military parade
1. The general carefully watched the soldiers on parade.
2. a military honor guard on parade
• Verb
• to walk or march together in public especially as a way of celebrating or protesting something
1. The team and its fans paraded down the street.
2. Protesters paraded in front of City Hall.
• to walk in a way that attracts attention
1. The models paraded up and down the runway.
2. She paraded around on the beach in her bikini.
• to force (someone) to walk or march in public
1. The victors paraded the prisoners through the streets.
• to march in lines in order to be examined by officers or other important people
1. The soldiers paraded past the generals.
2. The soldiers were paraded past the generals.
• to show or present (someone or something) proudly or in a way that attracts attention
1. They don't like having their personal problems paraded in print for everyone to see.
• to be falsely presented as something good
1. The book is just propaganda parading as literature.
2. lies being paraded as the truth