different between luster vs parade

English

Alternative forms

• lustre (Commonwealth)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro, from Latin lustr? (“I brighten”), akin to lux (“light”).

Noun

luster (countable and uncountable, plural lusters) (American spelling)

1. Shine, polish or sparkle.

   He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V, Canto 11, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 162,

     And over all the fields themselves did muster,

     With bils and glayves making a dreadfull luster;

     That forst at first those knights backe to retyre:

     As when the wrathfull Boreas doth bluster,

     Nought may abide the tempest of his yre,

     Both man and beast doe fly, and succour doe inquyre.

   • 1605/6, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene VII,

     First Servant: O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left

     To see some mischief on him. O! [Dies.

     Cornwall: Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!

     Where is thy lustre now?

     Gloucester: All dark and comfortless.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, 846-850,

     […] abashed the devil stood,

     And felt how awful goodness is, and saw

     Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined

     His loss; but chiefly to find here observed

     His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed

     Undaunted. […]

   • 1693, Joseph Addison, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III, The Story of Cadmus, [1]

     The scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre, to the noonday sky.

   • 1810, William Blake, Milton: A Poem in Two Books, Book I, 1-5

     Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet’s Song!

     Record the journey of immortal Milton through your realms

     Of terror & mild moony lustre, in soft sexual delusions

     Of varied beauty, to delight the wanderer and repose

     His burning thirst & freezing hunger! […]

   • 1914, James Joyce, "The Dead" in Dubliners, Penguin, 1996, p. 178

     Gabriel coloured as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes. […] When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body.

   • 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, Chapter VIII, [2]

     The canopy above the bed was a mosaic of tiny stones, jet, serpentine, dark hyacinth, black marble, bloodstone, and lapis lazuli, so confounded in a maze of altering hue and lustre that they might mock the palpitating sky of night.

   • 2001, James Wood, Introduction to Saul Bellow, Collected Stories, New York: Viking, p. xvii,

     Curiously enough, the stream of consciousness, for all its reputation as the great accelerator of description, actually slows down realism, asks it to dawdle over tiny remembrances, tiny details and lusters, to circle and return.

2. By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.

   After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.

   • 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 279, p. 602, [3]

     […] whose ancestors, says Clarendon, had been transported out of Normandy with the Conqueror, "and had continued," says Sir Henry Wotton, "about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre […] ".

   • 1970, S.Y. Agnon, "Agunot" in Twenty-One Stories, New York: Schocken Books, p. 30,

     Their days of rest are wrested from them, their feasts are fasts, their lot is dust instead of luster.

   • 2006, Florence Tamagne, A History of Homosexuality in Europe, Volume I & II: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, New York: Algora, p. 87,

     The notion of two homosexuals living together more or less openly did not sit well with their neighbors, or even their friends, but Millthorpe took on a kind of symbolic luster as a kind of homosexual paradise.

3. Refinement, polish or quality.

   He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.

   • 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Poetry: A Metrical Essay," in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Two Volumes: Volume I, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1892, p. 37 [4]

     Thus err the many, who, entranced to find

     Unwonted lustre in some clearer mind,

     Believe that Genius sets the laws at naught

     Which chain the pinions of our wildest thought;

   • 1971, Cynthia Ozick, "The Butterfly and the Traffic Light" in Collected Stories, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 288,

     But Main, High, and Central have no past; rather, their past is now. It is not the fault of the inhabitants that nothing has gone before them. Nor are they to be condemned if they make their spinal streets conspicuous, and confer egregious lustre and false acclaim on Central, High, or Main, and erect minarets and marquees indeed as though their city were already in dream and fable.

4. A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
   • 1735, Alexander Pope, "The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated," 45-48

     Each mortal has his pleasure: none deny

     Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his ham-pie;

     Ridotta sips and dances, till she see

     The doubling lustres dance as fast as she;

   • 1905, Thomas Mann, "The Blood of the Walsungs", translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter, in Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories, New York: Vintage, 1954 p. 294,

     The immense room was carpeted, the walls were covered with eighteenth-century panelling, and three electric lustres hung from the ceiling.

5. A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
   • 2009, Yuka Kadoi, Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran, Edinburgh University Press, p. 52,

     Chinese themes are equally recognisable in the star-shaped and hexagonal tiles with either moulded relief or lustre-painted decoration, sometimes surrounded by an inscription border […]

6. Lusterware.
   • 1936, Freya Stark, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut, Boston: E.P. Dutton, Chapter XXIII, p. 253,

     The whole place was covered with fragments of pottery, mostly very rough, and difficult to identify as to date. Two small lustre shards belong to the ninth or tenth century and a green glaze resembles the output of the kilns found by Sir Aurel Stein on the coast of Makran.

7. A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 143, [5]

     Mrs. McLash was dressed for travelling. She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots […]

Antonyms

• (brilliance): dullness

Derived terms

• lackluster
• lusterware

Related terms

• lustrous
• lustrum

Translations

Verb

luster (third-person singular simple present lusters, present participle lustering, simple past and past participle lustered) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To gleam, have luster.
2. (transitive) To give luster, distinguish.
3. (transitive) To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.
   • 1985, Nadine Gordimer, "Sins of the Third Age" in Something Out There, Penguin, p. 69,

     Peter and Mania found a pensione whose view was of chestnut woods and a horizon looped by peaks lustred with last winter's snow, distant in time as well as space.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the above

Noun

luster (plural lusters)

1. A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.

Related terms

• lustral

Translations

Etymology 3

lust +? -er.

Noun

luster (plural lusters)

1. One who lusts.
   • 1867-1872, Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Testimonies against the Jews

     Neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor the lusters after mankind […] shall obtain the kingdom of God.

Anagrams

• Ulster, lurest, lustre, luters, result, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster

Dutch

Etymology

From French lustre, see luister.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lus?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

luster m (plural lusters, diminutive lustertje n)

1. A chandelier, an ostentatious ceiling light
2. Alternative form of luister

Polish

Noun

luster

1. genitive plural of lustro

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Luster.

Noun

lùster m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. chandelier

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”); see pare. Compare parry, a doublet of parade.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?-r?d', IPA^(key): /p???e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

1. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, “British Columbia Nightingale” in The Book of Small, Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1986, p. 67,^[2]

     The band that played in the Queen’s birthday parade died when you lost sight of it.

2. (dated) A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.

   Synonyms: demonstration, march

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 27,^[3]

     The strikers had announced a parade for Tuesday morning, but Colonel Nixon had forbidden it, the newspapers said.

3. Any succession, series, or display of items.
   • 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ekskybalauron: or, The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, London, p. 282,^[4]

     [...] the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files [...]

   • 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, Chapter 3, p. 85,^[5]

     [...] he applied himself to his Bible morning and night. Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.

   • 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 5, p. 325,^[6]

     [...] there was a degree of order in the books, a parade of Loeb classics, archaeology, ancient history.

4. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
5. (countable, uncountable) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).

   Synonyms: display, exhibition, ostentation, show

   • 1659, Francis Osborne, “Conjectural Paradoxes” in A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes, and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters, London, p. 92,^[7]

     [...] Formes little Different from those of a Gally, to no more Thriving an Intention in reference to the Publick, Then Apothecaries paynt and adorn their Shops which is to delude the Ignorant, and hide from Inspection such Arts as lye more in Parade then Substance.

   • 1700, Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage, London: John Nutt, p. 67,^[8]

     What good Conduct does he shew! what Patience exercise! what Subtilty leave untry’d! what Concealment of his Faults! what Parade of his Vertues! what Government of his Passions!

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, untitled poem, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1735, Volume 2, p. 420,^[9]

     Be rich, but of your Wealth make no Parade;

     At least, before your Master’s Debts are paid.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Chapter 9,^[10]

     [...] with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.
6. (military) An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.

   Synonym: muster

   • 1642, Henry Hexham, The Second Part of The Principles of Art Military, Delft, Chapter 4, p. 31,^[11]

     There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens [...]

   • 1681, Andrew Marvell, “Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax,” stanza 39, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Robert Boulter, p. 87,^[12]

     See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade,

     Under their Colours stand displaid:

     Each Regiment in order grows,

     That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.

   • 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Chapter 17,^[13]

     The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance [...]. Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 18,^[14]

     At the bottom of the maidan the Military Policemen were drawn up, a dust-coloured rank with bayonets glittering. Verrall was facing them, but not in uniform—he seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.

7. (obsolete) Posture of defense; guard.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 779-782,^[15]

     And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim

     Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd

     To thir night watches in warlike Parade,

     When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake.

   • 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A. and J. Churchill, 7th edition, 1712, § 94, p. 121,^[16]

     [The Tutor] should accustom him to make as much as is possible a true Judgment of Men by those Marks which serve best to shew what they are, and give a Prospect into their Inside, which often shews it self in little Things, especially when they are not in Parade, and upon their Guard.

8. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

   Synonym: parade ground

9. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 47,^[17]

     [...] at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.

   • 1914, G. K. Chesterton, "The God of the Gongs", in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 216:

     After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.

10. (zoology, collective, uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???? (parai?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (parai?)

Translations

Verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

1. (intransitive) To march in or as if in a procession.

   They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 19,^[18]

     [...] it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, New York: Knopf, Chapter 22,^[19]

     [...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 23, p. 166,^[20]

     [...] Mrs. Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.

   • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, “April 6, 2001,” p. 381,^[21]

     Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.

2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.
   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Ballantine Books, Chapter 8, pp. 166-167,^[22]

     I felt a bit like a hunter who’s captured a unicorn and parades it through the town streets [...]

   • 2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, New York: Harper Luxe, p. 452,^[23]

     They’re parading ad men through Congress to convince the lawmakers that Free Market is the way to go, and that Harry Truman is in league with Karl Marx.

   • 2013, Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden, London: Faber & Faber, Part 2, Chapter 23,^[24]

     They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.

3. (transitive) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.

   Synonym: show off

   • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John and H.L. Hunt, Canto 16, stanza 65, p. 96,^[25]

     For she was not a sentimental mourner,

     Parading all her sensibility,

   • 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, London: Virago, 1986, Chapter 13, p. 243,^[26]

     I doubt if any woman on earth has gotten better effects than she has with black, white and red. Not only that, she knows how to parade it when she gets it on.

   • 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Pocket Books, 1964, Chapter 16, p. 150,^[27]

     [...] I am sure neither of us cares to parade family business in a lawsuit.

4. (transitive) To march past.

   After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

5. (transitive) To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 4,^[28]

     “What a delightful place Bath is,” said Mrs. Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired;

   • 1971, Bessie Head, Maru, London: Heinemann, 1995, Part 1, p. 92,^[29]

     They said nothing, but stared at each other with the horror of people exposed to all the torture of the demons who parade the African continent.

   • 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 10,^[30]

     That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.

6. (intransitive, military) To assemble to receive orders.
   • 1637, Robert Monro, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment, London, p. 64,^[31]

     [...] the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post [...]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Chapter 26,^[32]

     Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.
7. (military, transitive) To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 28,^[33]

     In a few moments, we were paraded in the frigate’s gangway; the first lieutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, in an ill-cut coat and tarnished gold lace—coming up, and frowning upon us.

   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 53, p. 382,^[34]

     The men were paraded and briefly addressed by the colonel in my presence [...]

8. (intransitive, of geese and other waterfowl) To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 120,^[35]

     Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.

Translations

References

Further reading

• Edward Phillips, compiler (1658) , “Parade”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], OCLC 81730241, column 1: “Parade, (French) a Term in Military Di?cipline, being an appearance of Souldiers at a ?et time to receive Orders; al?o any great preparation, or appearance.”
• parade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• parade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• earpad

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parade, from Middle French parade, from Spanish parada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa??ra?.d?/
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

parade f (plural parades, diminutive paradetje n)

1. A parade; a festive or ceremonial procession.

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

parade

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of parader
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parader
3. second-person singular imperative of parader

Anagrams

• dérapa

Norman

Alternative forms

• pathade (Jersey)

Etymology

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Noun

parade f (plural parades)

1. (Guernsey) parade

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?????d?/
• Rhymes: -d?
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?de

Noun

parade m (definite singular paraden, indefinite plural parader, definite plural paradene)

1. display, exhibition, show

   å sitte på parade

   to be on display

   Synonyms: lit de parade, paradeseng

2. (military) line-up, especially on solemn occasions

   en flott militær flaggparade

   a great military flag parade

   Synonyms: vaktparade, flaggparade, homseparade

   1. (military) a troop department that meets for inspection or a specific service
   2. (military) parade uniform
   3. (military) punishment attendance at school or military camp

      å få parade

      to receive punishment attendance

   Synonym: paradere

3. (sports) movement of the weapon to ward off the opponent's chops or bumps

   Synonym: kvartparade

   1. (boxing or wrestling) a movement to fend off the opponent's blows
   2. (ball game) fast averting movement from a goalie

      målvakten reddet ved en lynrask parade

      the goalkeeper saved by a quick parade

4. (equestrianism) sudden stopping or slowing of a riding horse

   hel parade

   sudden stopping of the horse

   halv parade

   sudden slowing of the horse

Synonyms

• opptog

Related terms

• paradere
• paraderen
• lit de parade

Derived terms

See also

• gravfølge
• karneval
• marsjering
• prosesjon
• triumfmarsj

References

• “parade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “parade” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• draper

Swedish

Adjective

parade

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of parad.

Verb

parade

1. past tense of para.

Anagrams

• rapade