Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - parade

(parades, parading, paraded) 1. A parade is a procession of people or vehicles moving through a public place in order to celebrate an important day or event. A military parade marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue. N-COUNT 2. When people parade 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 paraded 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 parade at six o’clock in the morning... N-VAR: oft on N 4. If prisoners are paraded 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 paraded before the media. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep 5. If you say that someone parades a person, you mean that they show that person to others only in order to gain some advantage for themselves. Children are paraded on television alongside the party leaders to win votes. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed 6. If people parade 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 parades, they walk about somewhere in order to be seen and admired. I love to put on a bathing suit and parade on the beach... They danced and paraded around. VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv 8. If you say that something parades as or is paraded 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 parade his cut in interest rates as a small victory... ...all the fashions that parade as modern movements in art. VERB: V n as n, V as n 9. If you talk about a parade 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 parade of baby-sitters. ...an endless parade of advertisements. N-COUNT: N of n 10. A parade is a short row of shops, usually set back from the main street. (BRIT) N-COUNT 11. Parade is used as part of the name of a street. ...Queens Hotel, Clarence Parade, Southsea. N-IN-NAMES 12. see also hit parade, identity parade