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Pageantry vs Spectacular - What's the difference?

pageantry | spectacular |

As nouns the difference between pageantry and spectacular

is that pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant while spectacular is a spectacular display.

As an adjective spectacular is

amazing or worthy of special notice.

pageantry

English

Noun

(pageantries)
  • A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
  • *1609 : William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)
  • *:That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry , what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
  • *1849 : Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
  • *:The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry , with silken streamers flying, ...

    • spectacular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Amazing or worthy of special notice
    • The parachutists were spectacular .
  • (dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment
    • the merely spectacular
  • * G. Hickes
    • Spectacular sports.
  • * {{quote-news, 1910, August 21, Andre Tridon, Europe Flirts with Argentina to Win Her Rich Trade, The New York Times citation
    • , passage=Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.}}
  • Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

    • Derived terms

    * spectacularly * unspectacular

    Related terms

    * spectacle * species * speculate

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spectacular display.
  • * 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
    • Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.