| • | The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. |
| • | An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. |
| • | Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. |
| • | That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. |
| • | Posture of defense; guard. |
| • | A public walk; a promenade. |
| • | To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. |
| • | To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops. |
| • | To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place. |
| • | To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review. |
