procession

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of moving along or forward; progression.
2. n. Origination; emanation; rise.
3. n. A group of persons, vehicles, or objects moving along in an orderly, formal manner.
4. n. The movement of such a group.
5. n. An orderly succession: the procession of the seasons.
6. v. To form or go in a procession.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of proceeding or issuing forth or from anything.
2. n. A succession of persons walking, or riding on horseback or in vehicles, in a formal march, or moving with ceremonious solemnity.
3. n. An office, form of worship, hymn, litany, etc., said or sung by a number of persons advancing with a measured and uniform movement.
4. To go in procession.
5. To treat or beset with processions.
6. In some of the American colonies, to go about in order to settle the boundaries of, as land. The term is still used in North Carolina and Tennessee. Compare to beat the bounds, under bound.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of progressing or proceeding
2. n. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly manner, especially if doing so slowly and formally
3. n. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time)
4. v. intransitive To take part in a procession
5. v. transitive, dated To honour with a procession

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
2. n. That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue
3. n. (Eccl.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without.
4. n. (Eccl.) An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
5. v. (Law), Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee). To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.
6. v. rare To march in procession.
7. v. rare To honor with a procession.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
2. n. the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
3. n. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost