parade English · revision 7182

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1656|origins=la paro}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /pəˈɹeɪd/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|parade|t=display, show, military parade]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from Spanish [[m|es|parada|t=a stopping]] and Italian [[m|it|parata]],^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)^(Barnhart 1988) from Latin [[m|la|paro|alt=parāre|t=to prepare, furnish]], which in Medieval Latin also meant to halt, guard against and adorn.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) In French the meaning was influenced by parer, to arrange or adorn.^(Barnhart 1988) The verb is a doublet of [[parry]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Show, display; the assembling of troops for inspection: 1656, in Blount's ''Glossographia''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) Etymonline dates it to the 1650s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In French horsemanship it was the act of stopping a horse.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) A march or procession, especially a grand public one, is from 1673–74,^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) and a public square or promenade, and a crowd of promenaders, from 1722.^(OED 1989)^(Hoad 1986) The ''Easter parade'' is from 1904.^(OED 1989) The verb, to array troops, is from the 1680s; to march up and down from 1748; and to show off ostentatiously by 1818.^(Etymonline) ''Parade-ground'' is by 1724.^(Etymonline) A row of shops is a British sense.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1656 – display; a muster of troops.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1673 – a procession.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1680s – the verb.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1722 – a promenade.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1818 – to show off.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1904 – Easter parade.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A public [[procession]], especially one celebrating a special day or event.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A formal assembly of troops for inspection or display.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A series or succession: ''a parade of visitors''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An ostentatious display.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(British)'' A row of shops; a public promenade.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To march in a procession.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To show off; to display ostentatiously.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[parader]]

+ * [[paradeful]]

+ * [[paradeless]]

+ * [[paradelike]]

+ * [[paradingly]]

+ * [[unparaded]]

+ * [[hit parade]]

+ * [[parade rest]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[parry]]

+ * [[prepare]]

+ * [[pare]]

+ * [[parachute]]

+ * [[parasol]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}