parade

1 noun (C)

1 a public celebration when musical bands, brightly decorated vehicles etc move down the street: a victory parade

2 a military ceremony in which soldiers stand or march together so that important people can examine them: a passing-out parade | be on parade (=be standing or marching in a parade)

3 a line of people moving along so that other people can watch them: fashion parade (=a show of different styles of clothes)

4 especially BrE a street with a row of small shops

—see also: identification parade, hit parade 2 verb

1 CELEBRATE/PROTEST (intransitive always + adv/prep) to walk or march together to celebrate or protest about something

(+ around/past etc): The marchers paraded peacefully through the center of the capital.

2 SHOW STH (T) to show your possessions, knowledge etc in order to make people admire you: He loves to parade his knowledge in front of his students.

3 WALK AROUND (intransitive always + adv/prep) to walk around, especially in a way that shows that you want people to notice and admire you

(+ around/past etc): A trio of girls in extremely brief bikinis paraded up and down.

4 SHOW SB (transitive always + adv/prep) to proudly show someone to other people, often to prove that you have control over them: The prisoners were paraded in front of the TV cameras.

5 SOLDIERS (I, T) if soldiers parade or if an officer parades them, they march together so that an important person can watch them: Two thousand of his warriors paraded before him.

6 parade as/be paraded as if something parades as something else that is better, someone is pretending that it is the other better thing: It's just self-interest parading as concern for your welfare.