Synonyms for pageant
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Beauty contest — ellipsis of beauty pageant
2. Pageantry
pageantry, spectacle, parade, ceremony, show, procession, exhibition, pomp, display, sight, ostentation
Definitions
- n. 1
An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
- n. 2
A spectacular ceremony.
Related words
- Word family
- pageantry page
- Phrases
- beauty pageant
Forms
- Plural
- pageants → contests, pageantries, spectacles, parades…
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Pageant, pageantry, parade, and pomp refer principally to affairs of arms or state; as, a royal pageant; a military parade.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- contest The presidential election is not a beauty contest.
- spectacle I've already made enough of a spectacle of myself.
- pageantry I can do without the pageantry. I'm just here to watch them play ball.
By length
- 4 letters
- show1, pomp1
- 5 letters
- sight1
- 6 letters
- parade2
- 7 letters
- display2, contest2
- 8 letters
- ceremony4
- 9 letters
- spectacle3, pageantry3
- 10 letters
- exhibition4, procession3
- 11 letters
- ostentation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (parade2 = 2 syllables).