Word Meanings - PARADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous

Additional info about word: PARADE

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 , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift. 4. 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. In state returned the grand parade. Swift. 5. Posture of defense; guard. When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke. 6. A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress. -- Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Ostentation; display; show. -- Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. "It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power." Robertson. "We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories." Spectator. (more info) assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARADE)

• Array
• Arrangement
• order
• disposition
• sight
• exhibition
• show
• parade
• Display
• Show
• exhibit
• unfold
• evidence
• evince
• flaunt
• vault
• expose
• ostentation
• spread out
• Flaunt Boast
• vaunt
• flout
• flutter
• flounce
• display
• flourish
• figure
• Formalism
• Rigidity
• ceremoniousness
• pomposity
• externalism
• punctilio
• Ostentation
• pomp
• vaunting
• boasting

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PARADE)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip
• Suppress
• conceal
• retire
• re-cede
• skulk
• hide
• shrivel
• collapse
• furl

Related words: (words related to PARADE)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• EVINCE
  1. To conquer; to subdue. Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.