motorcade
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˌməʊtə(ɹ)ˈkeɪd/, /ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌkeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editmotorcade (plural motorcades)
- A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.
- JFK was assassinated in a motorcade.
Translations
editprocession of cars
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Verb
editmotorcade (third-person singular simple present motorcades, present participle motorcading, simple past and past participle motorcaded)
- (intransitive) To travel in a motorcade.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 147:
- We then motorcaded to our hotel to change into formal wear […]
Further reading
edit- “motorcade”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.