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
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
Kate Moss
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
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
Wilfrid Laurier
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
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
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
James F. Cooper
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt
It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
Erno Rubik
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
Star Jones
I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
Natasha Henstridge
The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.
Robbie Fowler
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
Henry Lawson
Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.
Henry Wade
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
Georges Simenon
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
John J. Sweeney
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Amy Goodman
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?
Bob Merrill
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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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