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# parade

«parade» in Mova's school dictionary: **A procession of people, bands or floats moving through…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a parade, parades); verb (parade, parades, paraded, parading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A procession of people, bands or floats moving through the streets to celebrate something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m1)

2) A line of soldiers standing or marching for inspection. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m2)

3) (verb) To walk or march in a parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m3)

4) (verb) To show something off proudly so people will notice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m4)

5) (UK) A row of shops: «a shopping parade». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, parades happen on holidays such as St Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Anzac Day and Christmas. Safety: stay with your adult in the crowd and agree a meeting point. In stories, showing off is «parading». Phrases: «a street parade», «on parade», «rain on someone's parade».

### examples

- We watched the St Patrick's Day parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x1)
- The band marched in the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x2)
- Floats in the parade were covered in flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x3)
- Stay with your family in the parade crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x4)
- He paraded around in his new football kit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x5)
- The soldiers stood on parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x6)
- Don't rain on my parade (spoil my fun). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x7)
- Laughter, shrieks, howls, catcalls, hand-clapping followed this parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#x8)

### note

Countable: parades. Past: paraded. Stress: «pa-RADE». «Rain on someone's parade» means spoil their happy moment.

### In the corpora

- [Big crowds at festivals, matches, parades and fireworks are exciting, but it is very easy to get separated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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