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# parade

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

«parade» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A procession of people, bands or floats moving through the streets to celebrate something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m1)
2. A line of soldiers standing or marching for inspection. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m2)
3. (verb) To walk or march in a parade. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m3)
4. (verb) To show something off proudly so people will notice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m4)
5. (UK) A row of shops: «a shopping parade». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/#m5)

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

Interpretation: The scholar compares the letters standing in order like soldiers on parade, a picture of the alphabet as an ordered army. In the primary 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

- Tiii) vowels and consonants were made in the form of a "state and arranged like an army in battle array." Isaac Taylor '\*i says: "Like soldiers on parade the characters in the alphabetic line have been dressed." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parade/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «parade» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parade/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«parade» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/parade.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «parade» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parade/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«parade» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/parade.html) on Mova free.