promenade
promenades; promenading; promenaded
Promenade is a fancy word for going out walking. If you like to stroll through town in a leisurely way, then you like to take promenades.
Besides meaning the nice walk you just took, the noun promenade can also mean a special walking place for pedestrians, like a boardwalk. You can also use it as a verb, and go promenading. In Square Dance, promenade is a move where the couples walk around in a circle, and you might be familiar with the promenade at your high school — or did you just call it "Prom"?
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a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
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a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
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a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle
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type of:
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contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing, country-dance
a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
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contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing, country-dance
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a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
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a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
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take a leisurely walk“The ladies promenaded along the beach”
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type of:
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walk
use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
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walk
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march in a procession
Vocabulary lists containing promenade
Ahead of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Jewish teenage boys begin to disappear from the city's streets. After his best friend goes missing, Alter must race to solve the mystery before he becomes the killer's next victim.
Mr. Lemoncello invites teams from across the U.S. to compete in a first-ever Library Olympics, where they must solve puzzles and decipher clues to become champions of literature and his library.
This novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Juan de Pareja, the half-African slave of famed painter Diego Velázquez in 17th century Spain.
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