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parade
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)
- 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.
- 1942, Emily Carr, “British Columbia Nightingale” in The Book of Small, Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1986, p. 67,[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.
- 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.
- 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ekskybalauron: or, The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, London, p. 282,[4]
- A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 779-782,[15]
- The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
- Synonym: parade ground
- 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.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 47,[17]
- (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)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Ballantine Books, Chapter 8, pp. 166-167,[22]
- (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.
- (transitive) To march past.
- After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
- (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.
- 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 4,[28]
- (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.
- 1637, Robert Monro, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment, London, p. 64,[31]
- (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 [...]
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 28,[33]
- (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.
- 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 120,[35]
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)
- A parade; a festive or ceremonial procession.
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Verb
parade
- first/third-person singular present indicative of parader
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parader
- second-person singular imperative of parader
Anagrams
- dérapa
Norman
Alternative forms
- pathade (Jersey)
Etymology
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Noun
parade f (plural parades)
- (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)
- display, exhibition, show
- å sitte på parade
- to be on display
- Synonyms: lit de parade, paradeseng
- å sitte på parade
- (military) line-up, especially on solemn occasions
- en flott militær flaggparade
- a great military flag parade
- Synonyms: vaktparade, flaggparade, homseparade
- (military) a troop department that meets for inspection or a specific service
- (military) parade uniform
- (military) punishment attendance at school or military camp
- å få parade
- to receive punishment attendance
- å få parade
- Synonym: paradere
- en flott militær flaggparade
- (sports) movement of the weapon to ward off the opponent's chops or bumps
- Synonym: kvartparade
- (boxing or wrestling) a movement to fend off the opponent's blows
- (ball game) fast averting movement from a goalie
- målvakten reddet ved en lynrask parade
- the goalkeeper saved by a quick parade
- målvakten reddet ved en lynrask parade
- (equestrianism) sudden stopping or slowing of a riding horse
- hel parade
- sudden stopping of the horse
- halv parade
- sudden slowing of the horse
- hel parade
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
- absolute singular definite and plural form of parad.
Verb
parade
- past tense of para.
Anagrams
- rapade
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state
English
Etymology
Middle English (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek ???? (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ste?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
state (plural states)
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- 1977, J. B. Sykes and John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, p.28:
- States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions ?n which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ??n = En?n, where En are the eigenvalues of the energy.
- 1977, J. B. Sykes and John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, p.28:
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- High social standing or circumstance.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, [Act I, Scene iii]:
- And le?ned by that ?mall, God I be?eech him, / Thy honor, ?tate, and ?eate, is due to me.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, [Act I, Scene iii]:
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica, page 1:
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ?uch acce??e in a private condition, write that which they fore?ee may advance the publick good?; I ?uppo?e them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes […]
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica, page 1:
- (obsolete) Estate, possession.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- A polity.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Germany, or Australia.
- (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Antonym: occurrence
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “state”.
Translations
Verb
state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)
- (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- (transitive) To make known.
Usage notes
State is stronger or more definitive than say. It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:communicate
Translations
Adjective
state (comparative more state, superlative most state)
- (obsolete) Stately.
Related terms
- estate
- statistics
- status
- State
See also
- department
- province
Further reading
- state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- state at OneLook Dictionary Search
- state in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- state in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- state in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Satet, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, taste, teats, testa
Afrikaans
Noun
state
- plural of staat
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: stà?te
Etymology 1
Apheretic form of estate.
Noun
state f (plural stati)
- (Tuscany) Alternative form of estate
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
state
- inflection of stare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
state
- feminine plural of stato
Anagrams
- setta, testa
References
- state in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
Latin
Verb
st?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of st?
Participle
state
- vocative masculine singular of status
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