parade, n. 1. procession, promenade, progression, succession; train, file, string, straggle; caravan, troop, review, file, column, rank and file, march, march-past; cortege, funeral procession, autocade, motorcade; demonstration, field day, turnout, pageantry, fete.
2. ostentation, pretension, splash, blazon, spectacle; pomp, magnificence, grandeur, glitter, flourish; vaunting, showing off, boasting, Inf. sporting; Inf. putting on airs, cutting or making a figure, cutting a swath; swaggering, strutting, prinking, U.S. SI. putting on the dog; parvenu behavior, blatant affluence, conspicuous consumption.
3. public walk, promenade, passageway, footpath, esplanade; seawall, boardwalk, sidewalk, ambulatory.
-v. 4. march, hike, file, file by, go in column; march in review, march by, ride in review, Mil. troop the colors.
5. flaunt, display, Inf. sport, exhibit, air, point out, flash; put forth or forward, emphasize, spotlight, draw attention to, show off; make a show, strut, peacock; put on airs, put up a front, U.S. SI. put on the dog; wave, dangle in front of [s.o.], flourish.
paradigm, n. example, pattern, design, sample, specimen; prototype, archetype; typemold, original, protoplast; standard, criterion, gauge, norm, test, rule, precedent, touchstone, canon, principle.
paradise, n. 1. heaven, abode of God, our Father's house, Divine abode, home, Abraham's bosom, abode of the saints, heavenly kingdom, kingdom of God, kingdom of heaven, city of God, city of light, heavenly city, holy city, celestial city, New Jerusalem, Zion, throne of God; Annfwn, Valhalla, Olympus, Elysium, Elysian Fields, Empyrean, Mohammedanism, the Seven Heavens, Avalon, the Islands or Isles of the Blessed, the Fortunate Isles or Islands, the Happy Isles; infinity, life everlasting, hereafter, life to come, world to come, next world, afterworld, sweet by-and-by; the final home, beyond the grave, afterlife, eternity, immortality, perpetuity, deathlessness.
2. utopia, Eden, heaven on earth, Shangri-la; millennium, Jubile, kingdom come, Xanadu, Beulah Land; fairyland, happy valley, pie in the sky.
3. bliss, glory, rapture, delight; ecstasy, honeymoon, transport, gratification, joy, supreme happiness; blessedness, third heaven, seventh heaven, beatitude, beatification, perfect content, Buddhism. Nirvana, dreamland, Land of the Lotus-eaters.
paradisiacal, adj. 1. heavenly, out of this world, unearthly, divine, celestial, Elysian; holy, glorified, blessed, beatific, good; cherubic, angelic, seraphic, arch-angelic, saintly, sainted.
2. delightful, blissful, pleasurable, felicitous; ambrosial, delectable, gratifying, entrancing, enrapturing; thrilling, exciting, enchanting, ravishing, transporting; joyous, cheering, enjoyable.
3. beautiful, dazzling, bright, radiant, shining, brilliant; superb, exquisite, sublime, golden, glorious; perfect, faultless, never-fading, imperishable, immortal, deathless; utopian, Edenic, ideal, consummate.
paradox, n. 1. puzzle, maze, quandary, dilemma, horns of a dilemma; problem, nonplus, brain-teaser; knot, Gordian knot, stickler, Irish bull, Geom. asses' bridge; enigma, perplexity, riddle, intricacy; puzzlement, bafflement, uncertainty.