different between parade vs passage

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”); see pare. Compare parry, a doublet of parade.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?-r?d', IPA^(key): /p???e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

1. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, “British Columbia Nightingale” in The Book of Small, Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1986, p. 67,^[2]

     The band that played in the Queen’s birthday parade died when you lost sight of it.

2. (dated) A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.

   Synonyms: demonstration, march

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 27,^[3]

     The strikers had announced a parade for Tuesday morning, but Colonel Nixon had forbidden it, the newspapers said.

3. Any succession, series, or display of items.
   • 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ekskybalauron: or, The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, London, p. 282,^[4]

     [...] the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files [...]

   • 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, Chapter 3, p. 85,^[5]

     [...] he applied himself to his Bible morning and night. Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.

   • 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 5, p. 325,^[6]

     [...] there was a degree of order in the books, a parade of Loeb classics, archaeology, ancient history.

4. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
5. (countable, uncountable) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).

   Synonyms: display, exhibition, ostentation, show

   • 1659, Francis Osborne, “Conjectural Paradoxes” in A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes, and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters, London, p. 92,^[7]

     [...] Formes little Different from those of a Gally, to no more Thriving an Intention in reference to the Publick, Then Apothecaries paynt and adorn their Shops which is to delude the Ignorant, and hide from Inspection such Arts as lye more in Parade then Substance.

   • 1700, Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage, London: John Nutt, p. 67,^[8]

     What good Conduct does he shew! what Patience exercise! what Subtilty leave untry’d! what Concealment of his Faults! what Parade of his Vertues! what Government of his Passions!

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, untitled poem, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1735, Volume 2, p. 420,^[9]

     Be rich, but of your Wealth make no Parade;

     At least, before your Master’s Debts are paid.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Chapter 9,^[10]

     [...] with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.
6. (military) An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.

   Synonym: muster

   • 1642, Henry Hexham, The Second Part of The Principles of Art Military, Delft, Chapter 4, p. 31,^[11]

     There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens [...]

   • 1681, Andrew Marvell, “Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax,” stanza 39, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Robert Boulter, p. 87,^[12]

     See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade,

     Under their Colours stand displaid:

     Each Regiment in order grows,

     That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.

   • 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Chapter 17,^[13]

     The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance [...]. Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 18,^[14]

     At the bottom of the maidan the Military Policemen were drawn up, a dust-coloured rank with bayonets glittering. Verrall was facing them, but not in uniform—he seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.

7. (obsolete) Posture of defense; guard.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 779-782,^[15]

     And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim

     Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd

     To thir night watches in warlike Parade,

     When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake.

   • 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A. and J. Churchill, 7th edition, 1712, § 94, p. 121,^[16]

     [The Tutor] should accustom him to make as much as is possible a true Judgment of Men by those Marks which serve best to shew what they are, and give a Prospect into their Inside, which often shews it self in little Things, especially when they are not in Parade, and upon their Guard.

8. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

   Synonym: parade ground

9. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 47,^[17]

     [...] at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.

   • 1914, G. K. Chesterton, "The God of the Gongs", in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 216:

     After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.

10. (zoology, collective, uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???? (parai?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (parai?)

Translations

Verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

1. (intransitive) To march in or as if in a procession.

   They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 19,^[18]

     [...] it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, New York: Knopf, Chapter 22,^[19]

     [...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 23, p. 166,^[20]

     [...] Mrs. Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.

   • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, “April 6, 2001,” p. 381,^[21]

     Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.

2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.
   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Ballantine Books, Chapter 8, pp. 166-167,^[22]

     I felt a bit like a hunter who’s captured a unicorn and parades it through the town streets [...]

   • 2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, New York: Harper Luxe, p. 452,^[23]

     They’re parading ad men through Congress to convince the lawmakers that Free Market is the way to go, and that Harry Truman is in league with Karl Marx.

   • 2013, Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden, London: Faber & Faber, Part 2, Chapter 23,^[24]

     They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.

3. (transitive) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.

   Synonym: show off

   • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John and H.L. Hunt, Canto 16, stanza 65, p. 96,^[25]

     For she was not a sentimental mourner,

     Parading all her sensibility,

   • 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, London: Virago, 1986, Chapter 13, p. 243,^[26]

     I doubt if any woman on earth has gotten better effects than she has with black, white and red. Not only that, she knows how to parade it when she gets it on.

   • 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Pocket Books, 1964, Chapter 16, p. 150,^[27]

     [...] I am sure neither of us cares to parade family business in a lawsuit.

4. (transitive) To march past.

   After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

5. (transitive) To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 4,^[28]

     “What a delightful place Bath is,” said Mrs. Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired;

   • 1971, Bessie Head, Maru, London: Heinemann, 1995, Part 1, p. 92,^[29]

     They said nothing, but stared at each other with the horror of people exposed to all the torture of the demons who parade the African continent.

   • 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 10,^[30]

     That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.

6. (intransitive, military) To assemble to receive orders.
   • 1637, Robert Monro, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment, London, p. 64,^[31]

     [...] the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post [...]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Chapter 26,^[32]

     Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.
7. (military, transitive) To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 28,^[33]

     In a few moments, we were paraded in the frigate’s gangway; the first lieutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, in an ill-cut coat and tarnished gold lace—coming up, and frowning upon us.

   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 53, p. 382,^[34]

     The men were paraded and briefly addressed by the colonel in my presence [...]

8. (intransitive, of geese and other waterfowl) To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 120,^[35]

     Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.

Translations

References

Further reading

• Edward Phillips, compiler (1658) , “Parade”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], OCLC 81730241, column 1: “Parade, (French) a Term in Military Di?cipline, being an appearance of Souldiers at a ?et time to receive Orders; al?o any great preparation, or appearance.”
• parade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• parade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• earpad

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parade, from Middle French parade, from Spanish parada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa??ra?.d?/
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

parade f (plural parades, diminutive paradetje n)

1. A parade; a festive or ceremonial procession.

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

parade

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of parader
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parader
3. second-person singular imperative of parader

Anagrams

• dérapa

Norman

Alternative forms

• pathade (Jersey)

Etymology

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Noun

parade f (plural parades)

1. (Guernsey) parade

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?????d?/
• Rhymes: -d?
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?de

Noun

parade m (definite singular paraden, indefinite plural parader, definite plural paradene)

1. display, exhibition, show

   å sitte på parade

   to be on display

   Synonyms: lit de parade, paradeseng

2. (military) line-up, especially on solemn occasions

   en flott militær flaggparade

   a great military flag parade

   Synonyms: vaktparade, flaggparade, homseparade

   1. (military) a troop department that meets for inspection or a specific service
   2. (military) parade uniform
   3. (military) punishment attendance at school or military camp

      å få parade

      to receive punishment attendance

   Synonym: paradere

3. (sports) movement of the weapon to ward off the opponent's chops or bumps

   Synonym: kvartparade

   1. (boxing or wrestling) a movement to fend off the opponent's blows
   2. (ball game) fast averting movement from a goalie

      målvakten reddet ved en lynrask parade

      the goalkeeper saved by a quick parade

4. (equestrianism) sudden stopping or slowing of a riding horse

   hel parade

   sudden stopping of the horse

   halv parade

   sudden slowing of the horse

Synonyms

• opptog

Related terms

• paradere
• paraderen
• lit de parade

Derived terms

See also

• gravfølge
• karneval
• marsjering
• prosesjon
• triumfmarsj

References

• “parade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “parade” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• draper

Swedish

Adjective

parade

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of parad.

Verb

parade

1. past tense of para.

Anagrams

• rapade

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs?d??/

Adjective

passage (not comparable)

1. Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry)

   Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

Noun

passage (plural passages)

1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

   passage of scripture

   She struggled to play the difficult passages.

2. Part of a path or journey.

   He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.

3. An incident or episode.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings

     But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.

4. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]

   The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.

5. The advance of time.

   Synonym: passing
6. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
7. A passageway or corridor.
8. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
9. (euphemistic) The vagina.
   • 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,^[1] New American Library, ?ISBN, page 463:

     With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]

   • 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, ?ISBN, page 53:

     This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.

   • 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, ?ISBN, page 249:

     At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.

10. The act of passing; movement across or through.
    • 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29

      He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.

11. The right to pass from one place to another.
12. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
13. Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology
14. (dice games, now historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. [from 15th c.]

Derived terms

• passage maker, passagemaker
• Restronguet Passage
• rite of passage

Translations

Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

   He passaged the virus through a series of goats.

   After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.

2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

   They passaged to America in 1902.

Etymology 2

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pas???/

Noun

passage (plural passages)

1. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

Translations

Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement

Further reading

• passage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• passage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• passage at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From passeren +? -age

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pas?sa?ge

Noun

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)

1. A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning. ~ of scripture.
2. a passage way in a city.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.sa?/, /pa.sa?/
• Homophones: passagent, passages
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Old French, from passer +? -age.

Noun

passage m (plural passages)

1. The act of going through a place or event.
2. The time when such an act occurs.
3. (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement.
4. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another,or crosses a meridian.
5. A short stay.
6. A trip or travel, especially by boat.
7. The act of going from a state to another.
8. Graduation from a school year.
9. The act of making something undergo a process.
10. the act of handing something to someone.
11. An access way.
12. A laid out way allowing to go across something.
13. An alley or alleyway off-limits to cars.
14. A paragraph or section of text or music.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: passagem

Etymology 2

Verb form of passager.

Verb

passage

1. first-person singular present indicative of passager
2. third-person singular present indicative of passager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of passager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of passager
5. second-person singular imperative of passager

Further reading

• “passage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

passage m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)

1. passage (part of a route or journey)

Descendants

• ? English: passage
• French: passage
  • ? Portuguese: passagem
• ? Swedish: passage

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?s???/, /pa?s???/

Noun

passage c

1. access, transit

   Synonym: genomgång

Declension

References

• passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)