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Definition: Cavalcade |
CavalcadeNoun1. A procession of people traveling on horseback. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cavalcade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Cavalcade \Cav"al*cade`\, noun. [French expression cavalcade, from Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare to go on horseback, from Late Latin expression caballicare, from the Latin expression caballus an inferior horse. Compare to Cavalier, Cavalry.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuity | Procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array. |
Journey | Procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cavalcade |
| English words defined with "cavalcade": Skimmington. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cavalcade": RIDING SKIMMINGTON. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cavalcade" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (cavalcade, knightage, stampede). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Cavalcade (1958) Paris Cavalcade of Fashions (1948) Cavalcade of Archery (1945) La Cavalcade des heures (1943) | |
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| "Cavalcade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cavalcade" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 53 | 46,657 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
suzuki cavalcade | 45 |
cavalcade | 25 |
cavalcade of home | 14 |
bill buffalo cavalcade de la | 6 |
cavalcade of home illinois | 4 |
literary cavalcade | 4 |
band cavalcade | 3 |
cavalcade pawhuska | 3 |
cavalcade county home livingston | 2 |
cavalcade of star | 2 |
2003 cavalcade home | 2 |
cavalcade motorcycle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cavalcade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vargan (caravan, convoy, jew's harp, procession, train), varg (chain, column, concatenation, course, file, in file, line, network, nexus, number, range, rank, ridge, row, series, string, succession, train, variety, verse), sërë (battery, rank, row). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шествие (manifestation, procession, show, train), калвакада. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kavalkáda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گردش سواره (Ride), سواری (Ride), دسته اسب سواران . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cavalcade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kavalkade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έφιππη παρέλαση, έφιππη πομπή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת"לוכ" (cortege, parade, procession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lovas felvonulás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pawai (parade, procession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cavalcata (ride, riding, rode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 乗馬隊 (mounted corps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じょうばたい (mounted corps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | markrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avalcadecay cavalgada. (various references) cavalcadã. (various references) кавалькада. (various references) kavalkada. (various references) cabalgada. (various references) procession (procession, train), kavalkad. (various references) ขบวนม้าหรือยานพาหนะในพิธี. (various references) süvari geçit töreni, süvari alayı. (various references) хід (burrow, chain, course, motion, move, passage, process, progress, run, running, tide, way), церемоніальний марш, шеренга екіпажів, кавалькада, група вершників, низка машин, процесія (procession, train, walk). (various references) đo n người cưỡi ngựa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cavalcade": cavalcades. (additional references) | |
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"Cavalcade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calvacade, calvalcade, cavalade, Cavalcare, cavaleade, cavlacade, Celalzade. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cavalcade" (pronounced ka"vulkā'd) |
| 3 | -k ā' d | barricade, Medicaid, motorcade. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-l-v" | |
-3 letters: alcade, caecal, calved. | |
-4 letters: caeca, calve, caved, cecal, clade, clave, decal, laced, laved. | |
-5 letters: aced, alae, alec, caca, cade, cave, ceca, clad, dace, dale, deal, deva, lace, lade, lava, lave, lead, leva, vale, veal, vela, veld. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-l-v" | |
+1 letter: cavalcades. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 76 61 6C 63 61 64 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ...- .- .-.. -.-. .- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110110 01100001 01101100 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a v a l c a d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0076 0061 006C 0063 0061 0064 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376788677869677071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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