Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who parades; one who makes ostentatious display of accomplishments, powers, possessions, cleverness, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who walks with regular or stately step.

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  • noun A person who parades things, or takes part in a parade.

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  • noun walks with regular or stately step

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Examples

  • Diehl and Batiste are a singularly astute pairing: Mr. Diehl, a classical scholar, makes serious music sound like fun, while Mr. Batiste, a party-hearty New Orleans street parader, reminds us that fun music can also be serious.

    Passing Down the Piano Torch Song Will Friedwald 2011

  • A parader in a car tossed candy on the asphalt and she lunged at it.

    Holiday parade draws the politicians 2010

  • Kingmaker in the civic politics of the Fourth Ward, parader with infant ghouls and vampires on Halloween, soup kitchen volunteer; Rosa Elisabetta, institution.

    Rick Moody: The Diviners (Excerpt) 2008

  • What think you, my dear, of compromising with your friends, by rejecting both men, and encouraging my parader? —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Every individual parader in the procession wore a somber black arm-band.

    Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Among the festive decorations that made the corporate home of Dink and the Tennessee Shad a place to visit and admire was, as has been related, a smashing poster of a ballet dancer in the costume of an amazon parader.

    The Varmint Owen Johnson 1915

  • This captain of whom I speak was a padded shape -- shirker from the front line -- a parader of his uniform before women.

    The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905

  • -- What think you, my dear, of compromising with your friends, by rejecting both men, and encouraging my parader?

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • "Boy, he's just got those moves," auctioneer Phil Musser, from the Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance, said of parader Philip Johnson, president at Finlandia University, drawing laughs across the room.

    The Daily Mining Gazette 2010

  • "Boy, he's just got those moves," auctioneer Phil Musser, from the Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance, said of parader Philip Johnson, president at Finlandia University, drawing laughs across the room.

    The Daily Mining Gazette 2010

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