Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A train of attendants, as of a distinguished person; a retinue.
- noun A ceremonial procession.
- noun A funeral procession.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A train of attendants; a company of followers; a procession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.
- noun a procession, especially a funeral procession following the casket carrying a dead person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
ceremonial procession , especially for awedding orfuneral or following aking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the group following and attending to some important person
- noun a funeral procession
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thousands of people have turned out in this town, including sobbing family members, policemen, and other loved ones who have come here to show their respects with flower bouquets and, in fact, in front of the cortege is a cousin of the man who died, who is sobbing and caressing his picture.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: New Conflict May Arise in Kosovo - March 10, 2001 2001
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The cortege was a long one, mostly made up of the dead man's fellow Gephyriots.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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The flashes of lightning showed that the cortege was the object of a most determined attack, which sought to make its way to the palanquin of the princess.
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Ferragut recalled the cortege of Aphrodite which the doctor had so often described to him on summer evenings, by the light of the far-away gleam of the lighthouse.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Any travelling European with a medicine chest can get the same kind of cortege round his tent.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The cortege turned in through the gates, snaked up the winding road, and pulled up to where we were gathered.
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Expect traffic delays while mourners lining the streets throw benefit cheques and bottles of White Lightning in the path of the cortege.
Exclusive: Jade's Funeral Arrangements Leaked Dungeekin 2009
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Expect traffic delays while mourners lining the streets throw benefit cheques and bottles of White Lightning in the path of the cortege.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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When Tagore died in 1941, the huge crowd around his funeral cortege plucked hairs from his head.
Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian Jack 2011
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He said counterintelligence officials found in Mr. Gedenidze's apartment a detailed sketch of the president's office building, a copy of the itinerary of the president's cortege and details on his schedule.
Georgia Police Charge Photojournalists Giorgi Lomsadze 2011
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