noun
Meaning 1
A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: company
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cavalcade
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A ceremonial parade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: parade, procession
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An often dramatic series or chain of events or things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Examples
- As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chain, series
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a procession of people traveling on horseback
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: procession
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Latin caballus Latin -ic- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -icō Late Latin caballicō Old Italian cavalcare Old Italian cavalcatabor. Old French cavalcade French cavalcadebor. English cavalcade From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of chevauchee.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кавалкада (kavalkada) — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Catalan: cavalcada — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Chinese Mandarin: 騎馬行列 /骑马行列 (qímǎ hángliè) — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Danish: kavalkade — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Dutch: cavalcade — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Dutch: konvooi — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Estonian: kavalkaad — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Finnish: kavalkadi — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Finnish: juhlallinen kulkue — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- French: cavalcade — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- German: Kavalkade — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- German: Reiterzug — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Japanese: 乗馬隊 (jōbatai) — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Middle English: chyvachie — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Occitan: cavalgada — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Occitan: cavalcada — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Polish: kawalkada — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Portuguese: cavalgada — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Russian: кавалька́да (kavalʹkáda) — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Spanish: cabalgada — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Volapük: kavidanef — procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Danish: kavalkade — parade
- Dutch: ridderstoet — parade
- Dutch: ruiterstoet — parade
- Dutch: ruiteroptocht — parade
- Dutch: paardenstoet — parade
- Dutch: cavalcade — parade
- Estonian: ratsarongkäik — parade
- Finnish: kavalkadi — parade
- Finnish: juhlallinen kulkue — parade
- German: Reiterzug — parade
- German: berittener Zug — parade
- German: Kavalkade — parade
- Swedish: kavalkad — parade
- Volapük: kavidanagoläd — parade