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pageant - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.
- noun A spectacular procession or celebration, especially one involving costumed performers or contestants.
- noun A beauty contest.
- noun A usually pompous or ostentatious display or sequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exhibit in show; flaunt.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun Hangings of tapestry and the like decorated with scenes, incidents, etc.
- Brilliant and showy; ostentatious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
- noun A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
- noun An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
- transitive verb rare To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
elaborate public display , especially aparade inhistorical ortraditional costume . - noun A
spectacular ceremony . - noun A
beauty pageant . - verb To
exhibit inshow ; torepresent ; tomimic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes
- noun a rich and spectacular ceremony
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English pagin, pagent, moveable stage for a mystery play, mystery play, alteration of Medieval Latin pāgina, probably from Latin, page; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Medieval Latin pagina. late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," perhaps from Latin pagina ("page of a book").
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Examples
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Anyone who participates in a pageant is agreeing to be judged (have their value determined!) on appearance, that's a basis of the competition!
Shaming Miss California: Stop fighting homophobia with misogyny - Feministing 2009
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I believe the anti-gay speech has something to do with her being fired but that doesnt mean that the pageant is at fault.
ShePop: Carrie Prejean's tale of an ultra-modern pageant girl | EW.com 2009
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The women she chose to focus on are indeed interesting characters, and the pageant is a strange event in what is, as the father of one of the girls calls it, basically a third world country.
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Church leaders have said services and the TV show will continue, though the annual Christmas pageant is in doubt.
Crystal Cathedral's Cracks Show in Bankruptcy Filing Tamara Audi 2010
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Motley entered the Miss Wisconsin pageant on a bet and was crowned in 2004.
American former beauty queen defending foreigners stuck in Afghan legal system Ernesto Londoño 2010
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Motley entered the Miss Wisconsin pageant on a bet and was crowned in 2004.
American former beauty queen defending foreigners stuck in Afghan legal system Ernesto Londoño 2010
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The journalist, Gemma Soames, seems to be arguing that the recent Miss University London beauty pageant is a microcosmic example of a change in the focus of feminist activism by cis women away from a ‘retro’ (and, by implication, outmoded and irrelevant) feminism:
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An annual beauty pageant is also held, as well as various health and HIV/AIDS seminars.
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The journalist, Gemma Soames, seems to be arguing that the recent Miss University London beauty pageant is a microcosmic example of a change in the focus of feminist activism by cis women away from a ‘retro’ (and, by implication, outmoded and irrelevant) feminism:
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Turning the whole conflict into a pageant is exploitative, in bad taste, and extremely unflattering to the father.
Related Words
synonyms (154)
Words with the same meaning
- Grand Guignol
- Passion play
- Tom show
- affair
- antimasque
- audience success
- ballet
- beauty pageant
- blazon
- bomb
- bravura
- brilliancy
- broadcast drama
- burlesque show
- ceremony
- charade
- cliff hanger
- closet drama
- comedy drama
- cosmorama
- critical success
- cyclorama
- daring
- dash
- daytime serial
- demonstration
- device
- dialogue
- diorama
- disguise
- display
- documentary drama
- drama
- dramalogue
- dramatic play
- dramatic series
- dramatics
- duodrama
- duologue
- eclat
- epic theater
- etalage
- event
- exhibit
- exhibition
- exhibitionism
- experimental theater
- exposition
- extravaganza
- failure
- false front
- fanfaronade
- figure
- flair
- flaunt
- flaunting
- float
- flop
- flourish
- formality
- gala
- gasser
- georama
- giveaway
- grandeur
- happening
- histrionics
- hit
- hit show
- improvisational drama
- legitimate drama
- light show
- manifestation
- masque
- melodrama
- mimic
- minstrel show
- miracle
- miracle play
- monodrama
- monologue
- morality
- morality play
- music drama
- musical revue
- myriorama
- mystery
- mystery play
- opera
- pageantry
- panel show
- panorama
- pantomime
- parade
- pastoral
- pastoral drama
- phantasmagoria
- piece
- play
- playlet
- pomp
- presentation
- pretentiousness
- problem play
- procession
- psychedelic show
- psychodrama
- quiz show
- radio drama
- represent
- representation
- review
- revue
- ritual
- sensational play
- serial
- sham
- shifting scene
- show
- showing-off
- sight
- sitcom
- situation comedy
- sketch
- skit
- soap
- soap opera
- sociodrama
- spectacle
- spectacular
- splash
- splurge
- stage play
- stage show
- staginess
- straight drama
- success
- suspense drama
- tableau
- tableau vivant
- talk show
- teleplay
- television drama
- television play
- theater of cruelty
- theatrics
- total theater
- variety show
- vaudeville
- vaudeville show
- vaunt
- vehicle
- word-of-mouth success
- work
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