parade

1. 1.

   walk ostentatiously

   “She parades her new husband around town”

   Synonymsexhibitmarch

   Broaderwalk
2. 2.

   march in a procession

   “the veterans paraded down the street”

   Synonymstrooppromenade

   Broadermarch

Other forms of parade

plural

parades·

past tense

paraded·

present participle

parading·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parade

What does parade mean?

parade means "a ceremonial procession including people marching". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parade?

parade has 2 syllables: pa-rade. The stress falls on "rade". In IPA it is /pɚˈeɪd/.

What is another word for parade?

Close synonyms include exhibit, march, troop, promenade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parade a common word?

parade is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with parade?

6 words rhyme with parade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.