parade

Everyday

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 →

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 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 →

Note

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