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pageant

English

Alternative forms

  • pageaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 14th c. as Middle English pagent, from Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin p?gina (“page of a book”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pæd??nt/

Noun

pageant (plural pageants)

  1. An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
    Synonym: spectacle
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 4
      For a few moments the events of the day floated in disastrous pageant through my brain, till sleep bathed it in forgetfulness […]
  2. A spectacular ceremony.
  3. Ellipsis of beauty pageant.
    Synonyms: beauty contest, beauty pageant
  4. (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.

Derived terms

  • pageanter
  • pageantry
  • beauty pageant

Translations

Verb

pageant (third-person singular simple present pageants, present participle pageanting, simple past and past participle pageanted)

  1. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

References

Anagrams

  • Napgate

Middle English

Noun

pageant

  1. Alternative form of pagent

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splendour

English

Noun

splendour (usually uncountable, plural splendours)

  1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of splendor.

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