procession
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< Middle English processioun < Old French procession < Latin processio (“‘a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession’”) < procedere, pp. processus (“‘to move forward, advance, proceed’”); see proceed.
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procession (plural processions)
- The act of progressing or proceeding
- A group of people or thing moving along in an orderly manner, especially if doing so slowly and formally
- A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time)
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act of progressing or proceeding
group of people or thing moving along in an orderly manner
number of things happening in sequence
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to procession (third-person singular simple present processions, present participle processioning, simple past and past participle processioned)
- (intransitive) To take part in a procession
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[edit] External links
- procession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- procession in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
