parade
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1. parade - Noun
2. parade - Verb
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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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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.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
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.
Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
Like a deaf man in a parade.