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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.
  2. n. A spectacular procession or celebration.
  3. n. Colorful showy display; pageantry or pomp.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A scaffold, in general movable (moving on four wheels, as a car or float), on which shows, spectacles, and plays were represented in the middle ages; a stage or platform; a triumphal car, chariot, arch, statue, float, or other object-forming part of or carried in public shows and processions.
  2. n. The play performed upon such a scaffold or platform; a spectacle; a show; an entertainment; a theatrieal exhibition; hence, a procession or parade with stately or splendid accompaniments; a showy display.
  3. n. Hangings of tapestry and the like decorated with scenes, incidents, etc.
  4. Brilliant and showy; ostentatious.
  5. To exhibit in show; flaunt.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
  2. n. A spectacular ceremony.
  3. n. A beauty pageant.
  4. v. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
  2. n. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
  3. adj. Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
  4. v. rare To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes
  2. n. a rich and spectacular ceremony

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin pagina. late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," perhaps from Latin pagina ("page of a book"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English pagin, pagent, moveable stage for a mystery play, mystery play, alteration of Medieval Latin pāgina, probably from Latin, page. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. spectacle
  1. spectacular
  1. represent
  1. mimic
  1. device
  1. float
  1. beauty pageant

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. representation
  1. ceremonial
  1. observance
  1. ceremonial occasion
  1. ceremony

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. procession
  2. pomp
  3. banquet
  4. festivity
  1. pageantry
  2. parade
  3. spectacle
  4. cavalcade
  1. festival
  2. panorama
  3. scenery
  4. magnificence
  1. monument
  2. assemblage
  3. drama
  4. celebration
  1. trappings
  2. ceremony
  3. edifice
  4. entertainment
  1. firework

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pageaunt
  2. pagent
  3. jest
  1. pagency
  2. ant
  3. cow-mass
  1. fool-plough
  2. ta'ziyeh
  3. triumph
  1. pageant
  2. pomp
  3. spectacle
  1. antic
  2. carousal
  3. parade
  1. show
  2. waterwork

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