Usually means: Competition celebrating beauty, talent, culture.
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  1. pageant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pageant: Merriam-Webster
  3. pageant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pageant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pageant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pageant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pageant, pageant: Wordnik
  8. pageant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pageant: Wiktionary
  10. pageant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pageant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pageant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pageant, pageant: Dictionary.com
  14. pageant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pageant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pageant (Lancaster novel), Pageant (album), Pageant (disambiguation), Pageant (film), Pageant (magazine), Pageant, The Pageant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pageant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pageant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pageant: Rhymezone
  20. Pageant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pageant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pageant: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pageant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pageant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pageant (disambiguation), pageant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. pageant: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
noun:  A spectacular ceremony.
noun:  (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.
verb:  To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
noun:  Ellipsis of beauty pageant. [A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.]

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