Pageant
Pageant noun - A staged presentation often with music that consists of a procession of narrated or enacted scenes.
Usage example: we always put on a Christmas pageant every year
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Synonyms for Pageant
Show is a synonym for pageant in display topic. In some cases you can use "Show" instead a noun "Pageant", when it comes to topics like circus, entertainment, spectacle or contest.
Nearby Word: pageantry
Show
Show noun - A public showing of objects of interest.
Usage example: a boat show at the convention center
Pageant is a synonym for show in exhibition topic. You can use "Pageant" instead a noun "Show", if it concerns topics such as circus, disguise, entertainment, demonstration.
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Season 3 parodied Glee with the study group getting assimilated one by one into the Christmas pageant — they end the show watching the Inspector Spacetime Christmas special.
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The reality show The Swan featured a group of women undergoing radical changes with plastic surgery and the series finale put all the women in a pageant.
Source: Beauty Contest -
Getting Crap Past the Radar: A commercial advertising the show's move to Wednesday nights featured Joel McHale talking with a child dressed for a Toddlers and Tiaras-style beauty pageant.
Source: Series / The Soup
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