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# pageant

«pageant» in Mova's school dictionary: **A show or procession where people dress up and act out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a pageant, pageants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A show or procession where people dress up and act out scenes from history or stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#m1)

2) A beauty contest (especially USA). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#m2)

3) A grand, colourful display. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

At school a nativity pageant tells the Christmas story; towns hold historical pageants. In the USA beauty pageants are competitions.

### examples

- Our school put on a pageant about the Romans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#x1)
- The nativity pageant had shepherds and kings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#x2)
- The town pageant marched through the streets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#x3)
- She entered a beauty pageant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#x4)
- The pageant of autumn colours was beautiful.. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/#x5)

### note

Say: PAJ-unt. Plural: pageants. Also «pageantry» (grand display).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pageant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pageant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.