What is the difference between parade and march?
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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.
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
A political rally or parade
Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see )
Steady forward movement or progression.
(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
To cause someone to walk somewhere.
* {{quote-book
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, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
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, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
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, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
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, passage = The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
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To go to war; to make military advances.
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
* , Book V:
(label) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
* 1819 , (Lord Byron), , IV:
To have common borders or frontiers
(obsolete) Smallage.
March is a synonym of parade.
In intransitive terms the difference between parade and march
is that parade is to march or to display while march is to have common borders or frontiers.In transitive terms the difference between parade and march
is that parade is to march past while march is to cause someone to walk somewhere.As a proper noun March is
the third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.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
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) mearc'', ''?emearc "mark, boundary".Noun
(es)- the march of time
Synonyms
* (steady forward movement or progression) process * (political rally) protest, parade, rally * (steady forward movement) advancement, progressionDerived terms
* countermarch * dead march * death march * double march * force-march * forced march * freedom march * frog-march, frog march, frog's march * funeral march * gain a march on, get a march on * grand march * hour of march * in a full march * in march * Jacksonian march * Jarvis march * line of march * make a march * march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria * march-on * march-order * march out * march-past * march-time * march tumor, march tumour * march to a different drummer * march to the beat of a different drum * minute of march * on a march * on the march * outmarch * rogue's march * route march, route-march, routemarch * slow march * snowball marches * steal a march * wedding marchVerb
(es)Derived terms
* dismarch * marcher * marching * march off * march on * march to the beat of a different drum * outmarch * overmarch * remarchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(es)- Therefore, sir, be my counsayle, rere up your lyege peple and sende kynges and dewkes to loke unto your marchis , and that the mountaynes of Almayne be myghtyly kepte.
- Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona.