Parade vs Festival - What's the difference?
parade | festival |
An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
Any succession, series, or display of items.
A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
* Jonathan Swift
(Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
* John Locke
A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
To march or to display.
To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
To march past.
Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
As nouns the difference between parade and festival
is that parade is an organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd while festival is an event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.As a verb parade
is to march or to display.As an adjective festival is
pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively..parade
English
(wikipedia parade)Noun
(en noun)- The floats and horses in the parade were impressive, but the marching bands were really amazing.
- The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
- a parade of shops
- Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade .
- when they are not in parade , and upon their guard
- He was parked on Chester Parade .
Derived terms
* hit parade * military parade * victory parade * pride parade * techno parade * parade of horribles * ticker tape parade * rain on someone's paradeVerb
(parad)- They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.
- They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
- Parading all her sensibility. Byron.
- After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
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English
(wikipedia festival)Adjective
(en adjective)- the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].