Definitions of parade
British English : parade When people parade somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them. VERBMore than four thousand soldiers, sailors, and airmen paraded down the avenue.
noun
- an ordered, esp ceremonial, march, assembly, or procession, as of troops being reviewed ⇒ on parade
- Also called : parade ground . a place where military formations regularly assemble
- a visible show or display ⇒ to make a parade of one's grief
- a public promenade or street of shops
- a successive display of things or people
- the interior area of a fortification
- a parry in fencing
- See rain on someone's parade
- See on parade
verb
- when intr, often foll by through or along to walk or march, esp in a procession (through) ⇒ to parade the streets
- (transitive) to exhibit or flaunt ⇒ he was parading his medals
- (transitive) to cause to assemble in formation, as for a military parade
- (intransitive) to walk about in a public place