Definitions for pageant

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pageant pag·eant

Spelling: [paj-uh nt]

IPA: /ˈpædʒ ənt/

Pageant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in pageant (aaegnpt).

Definitions for pageant

noun

1. an elaborate public spectacle illustrative of the history of a place, institution, or the like, often given in dramatic form or as a procession of colorful floats.
2. a costumed procession, masque, allegorical tableau, or the like forming part of public or social festivities.
3. a show or exhibition, especially one consisting of a succession of participants or events:
4. something comparable to a procession in colorful variety, splendor, or grandeur:
5. a pretentious display or show that conceals a lack of real importance or meaning.
6. (in medieval times) a platform or stage, usually moving on wheels, on which scenes from mystery plays were presented.
7. display or pageantry.
8. Obsolete. a stage bearing any kind of spectacle.

Origin of pageant

1350-1400; Middle English pagyn, pagaunt, pagand Anglo-Latin pāgina a stage for plays, scene, platform, perhaps special use of Latin pāgina page¹

Examples for pageant

Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.

The pageant came back to Atlantic City and, appropriately, took a big gamble.

Thursday, the twenty-first of January, 1535, was chosen for the pageant.

She reluctantly agreed to make her grams happy, and participated in the Miss Universe Canada pageant, placing in the top 15.

And this real—not a pageant—not as that thing you made of me before?

In 1995, Myerson made a point not to attend the 75th anniversary of the Miss America pageant.

His own inner life was as vivid a pageant to him as the history of the Church.

Reform first came in 1935 when Lenora Slaughter was hired to re-invent the pageant as its new director.

As for to-day, the magnificence of the pageant beggars description.

Let us watch the pageant that crosses the bridge that Charles built.