Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leisurely walk, especially one taken in a public place as a social activity.
- noun A public place for such walking.
- noun A formal dance; a ball.
- noun A march of all the guests at the opening of a ball.
- noun A square-dance figure in which couples march counterclockwise in a circle.
- noun In ballet, a slow supported turn on one foot.
- intransitive verb To go on a leisurely walk.
- intransitive verb To execute a promenade at a ball or in square dancing.
- intransitive verb To take a promenade along or through.
- intransitive verb To take or display on or as if on a promenade.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To walk about or up and down for amusement, display, or exercise; also, recently, to take exercise in carriage, saddle, or boat.
- noun A walk for pleasure or display, or for exercise.
- noun A place for walking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
- noun A place for walking; a public walk.
- intransitive verb To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun formal A
prom (dance). - noun A
place where one takes awalk forleisurely pleasure , or forexercise . - noun A
dance motion consisting of awalk , done whilesquare dancing . - verb To walk.
- verb To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take a leisurely walk
- noun a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- noun a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- noun a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- verb march in a procession
- noun a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
- noun a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At Rio's Leblon beach, the promenade is cluttered with placards showing larger than life pictures of politicians with very sincere faces.
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The development of the waterfront promenade is a central feature of the plan but full details have not been made public.
Nigeria building development could leave 200,000 homeless, says Amnesty David Smith 2010
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This promenade might be the best antidote to the problems created by the freeway and the rail line -- if it were better connected to the waterfront below it.
As it redevelops Southwest, the District should follow the lead of Arena Stage Philip Kennicott 2010
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The crowds strolling the promenade are a mix of white, black and Indian.
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I like night on bald mountain And Moussorgsky (who needs a pronounciation helper) has a nice piece called promenade or something that used to give my fingers a great workout on the piano (not that my kids will ever let me play solo anymore, they want to help).
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It opened up on Tuesday and you can get up to the promenade, which is roughly on the 16th floor or so.
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It now carries more than 121,000 trucks and automobiles a day and on the average Sunday, in good weather, more than a thousand people go walking or bicycling on the promenade, which is still the only one of its kind.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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It now carries more than 121,000 trucks and automobiles a day and on the average Sunday, in good weather, more than a thousand people go walking or bicycling on the promenade, which is still the only one of its kind.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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On either side of the promenade were the finest shops, the gaiest _cafés_.
The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward
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In London during August the usual cheap evening orchestra concerts, so-called promenade concerts, were announced in a patriotic manner, with the comment that no German musician would be represented on the program.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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