Definition of Pageant

Pageant

A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.

An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.

Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.

To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

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Pageant Quotations

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
Clay Aiken

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
Jude Law

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
Donna Rice

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
Maria Menounos

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
DeWitt Clinton

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.
Henry Ossawa Tanner

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell

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Pageant Translations

pageant in German is Pomp
pageant in Spanish is cabalgata

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