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 →

2) A line of soldiers standing or marching for inspection. tree →

3) (verb) To walk or march in a parade. tree →

4) (verb) To show something off proudly so people will notice. tree →

5) (UK) A row of shops: «a shopping parade». tree →

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 →
• The band marched in the parade. tree →
• Floats in the parade were covered in flowers. tree →
• Stay with your family in the parade crowd. tree →
• He paraded around in his new football kit. tree →
• The soldiers stood on parade. tree →
• Don't rain on my parade (spoil my fun). tree →
• Laughter, shrieks, howls, catcalls, hand-clapping followed this parade. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «parade» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.