(~s, parading, ~d)
1.
A ~ is a procession of people or vehicles moving through a public place in order to celebrate an important day or event.
A military ~ marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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2.
When people ~ somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them.
More than four thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen ~d down the Champs Elysee...
VERB: V prep/adv
3.
Parade is a formal occasion when soldiers stand in lines to be seen by an officer or important person, or march in a group.
He had them on ~ at six o’clock in the morning...
N-VAR: oft on N
4.
If prisoners are ~d through the streets of a town or on television, they are shown to the public, usually in order to make the people who are holding them seem more powerful or important.
Five leading fighter pilots have been captured and ~d before the media.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep
5.
If you say that someone ~s a person, you mean that they show that person to others only in order to gain some advantage for themselves.
Children are ~d on television alongside the party leaders to win votes.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
6.
If people ~ something, they show it in public so that it can be admired.
Valentino is keen to see celebrities parading his clothes at big occasions.
= show off
VERB: V n
7.
If someone ~s, they walk about somewhere in order to be seen and admired.
I love to put on a bathing suit and ~ on the beach...
They danced and ~d around.
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
8.
If you say that something ~s as or is ~d as a good or important thing, you mean that some people say that it is good or important but you think it probably is not.
The Chancellor will be able to ~ his cut in interest rates as a small victory...
...all the fashions that ~ as modern movements in art.
VERB: V n as n, V as n
9.
If you talk about a ~ of people or things, you mean that there is a series of them that seems never to end.
When I ask Nick about his childhood, he remembers a ~ of baby-sitters.
...an endless ~ of advertisements.
N-COUNT: N of n
10.
A ~ is a short row of shops, usually set back from the main street. (BRIT)
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11.
Parade is used as part of the name of a street.
...Queens Hotel, Clarence Parade, Southsea.
N-IN-NAMES
12.
see also hit ~ , identity ~