Synonyms for pageant
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : paj-uh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpædʒ ənt |
Top 10 synonyms for pageant Other synonyms for the word pageant
Définition of pageant
Origin :- late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," from Medieval Latin pagina, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin pagina "page of a book" (see page (n.1)) on notion of "manuscript" of a play.
- But an early sense in Middle English also was "stage or scene of a play" (late 14c.) and Klein says a sense of Latin pagina was "movable scaffold" (probably from the etymological sense of "stake"). With excrescent -t as in ancient (adj.). Generalized sense of "showy parade, spectacle" is first attested 1805, though this notion is found in pageantry (1650s).
- noun spectacle or contest
- As for to-day, the magnificence of the pageant beggars description.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- His own inner life was as vivid a pageant to him as the history of the Church.
- Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
- And this real—not a pageant—not as that thing you made of me before?
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- Let us watch the pageant that crosses the bridge that Charles built.
- Extract from : « From a Terrace in Prague » by Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
- Thursday, the twenty-first of January, 1535, was chosen for the pageant.
- Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird
- "Never mind: make a Pageant of 'em," said his brother grimly.
- Extract from : « Brother Copas » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- This was the pageant of her beloved England, and hers for the moment was this proud part in it.
- Extract from : « Brother Copas » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- It's to be an Anglo-American pageant, to symbolize the school.
- Extract from : « The Jolliest School of All » by Angela Brazil
- The people watched this pageant as they had done the earlier spectacles.
- Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- The pageant had been brilliant, as one may read in the chronicles of the time.
- Extract from : « The Royal Pawn of Venice » by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
Antonyms for pageant
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