Pageant
noun
A show or display presented on a public stage.
The Christmas pageant was a huge success.
Often appears as...
- christmas pageant
- beauty pageant
noun
A beauty contest.
She hopes to compete in a pageant next year.
Often appears as...
- beauty pageant
- national pageant
noun
A grand display.
The Olympic opening ceremony was truly a pageant of color and light.
Often appears as...
- pageant of color
- pageant of history
noun
A show or display presented on a public stage.
The Christmas pageant was a huge success.
Often appears as...
- christmas pageant
- beauty pageant
noun
A beauty contest.
She hopes to compete in a pageant next year.
Often appears as...
- beauty pageant
- national pageant
noun
A grand display.
The Olympic opening ceremony was truly a pageant of color and light.
Often appears as...
- pageant of color
- pageant of history
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Staged Events
Pageants often involve planned events, from talent displays to storytelling, usually with elaborate costumes or decorations.
The medieval pageant reenacted famous battles with great detail.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Traditions
Pageants are sometimes rooted in local culture or history, providing a sense of community pride.
The town's annual pageant celebrates its founding with traditional dances and songs.
Pro Tip 3/3Holiday Associations
Pageants are frequently associated with holidays and can depict related scenes or stories.
Each year, the Easter pageant draws crowds with its reenactment of biblical events.
Pro Tip 1/3Staged Events
Pageants often involve planned events, from talent displays to storytelling, usually with elaborate costumes or decorations.
The medieval pageant reenacted famous battles with great detail.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Traditions
Pageants are sometimes rooted in local culture or history, providing a sense of community pride.
The town's annual pageant celebrates its founding with traditional dances and songs.
Pro Tip 3/3Holiday Associations
Pageants are frequently associated with holidays and can depict related scenes or stories.
Each year, the Easter pageant draws crowds with its reenactment of biblical events.
Pro Tip 1/3Staged Events
Pageants often involve planned events, from talent displays to storytelling, usually with elaborate costumes or decorations.
The medieval pageant reenacted famous battles with great detail.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Traditions
Pageants are sometimes rooted in local culture or history, providing a sense of community pride.
The town's annual pageant celebrates its founding with traditional dances and songs.
Pro Tip 3/3Holiday Associations
Pageants are frequently associated with holidays and can depict related scenes or stories.
Each year, the Easter pageant draws crowds with its reenactment of biblical events.
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Jehane Noujaim: TEDPrize...
Well, then you'd be screwed, because you'd know what to wish for, and you'd use up your wish, and now, since we only have one wish -- unlike last year they had three wishes -- I'm not going to wish for that. So let's get to what I would like, which is world peace. And I know what you're You're thinking, "The poor girl up there, she thinks she's at a beauty pageant.
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Erika Larsen: People of...
and she showed me that it was a lot more than beauty. She said, 'for me to participate in these pageants,' She said, 'I have to have the knowledge of my language, I have to have a knowledge of my culture,' and she goes, 'most importantly, the knowledge of my 'immediate family, my grandmother did this. 'I wanted to walk in the footsteps of my grandmother
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The emergence of drama...
actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater must be built outside the city wall. One of the first theaters was built like a larger version of a pageant,
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"Good" and "bad" are...
or the girl with the walker and the communication device who is a precious little angel. This story rears its head in my daughter's life around Christmastime, when certain people get positively giddy at the thought of seeing her in angel's wings and a halo at the pageant.
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Jodi Cobb: What Is...
continents to explore cultural notions of beauty and attraction I tried to explore the the commercial side of beauty and how concepts of beauty have become distorted around the world I mean this doesn't exist in nature please this is a children's beauty pageant she's six
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Ken Jennings: Watson,...
cheering on their little darling, having poured millions of dollars into this hoping against hope that the humans screw up, and holding up "Go Watson" signs and just applauding like pageant moms every time their little darling got one right.
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How I went from child...
positive, life-changing events that have happened to me are thanks to those people who are different than me. It was at this moment that I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and compete in a pageant wearing a hijab and burkini.
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George Takei and the...
I want to be an actor right that's folks he knew what my passion was my a school teacher cast me and this was in grammar school or even okay she cast me in my first acting role a Thanksgiving pageant
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Why I must come out PIPE...
I won best in swimsuit and best in long gown and placed second runner up among 40-plus candidates. That moment changed my life. All of a sudden, I was introduced to the world of beauty pageants.
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See What Canyon Life Is...
pageants and be Miss Venetian these young ladies they're really unique you guys all look beautiful to be in that project you have to put your sheet
Video examples
Jehane Noujaim: TEDPrize...
Well, then you'd be screwed, because you'd know what to wish for, and you'd use up your wish, and now, since we only have one wish -- unlike last year they had three wishes -- I'm not going to wish for that. So let's get to what I would like, which is world peace. And I know what you're You're thinking, "The poor girl up there, she thinks she's at a beauty pageant.
Video examples
Erika Larsen: People of...
and she showed me that it was a lot more than beauty. She said, 'for me to participate in these pageants,' She said, 'I have to have the knowledge of my language, I have to have a knowledge of my culture,' and she goes, 'most importantly, the knowledge of my 'immediate family, my grandmother did this. 'I wanted to walk in the footsteps of my grandmother
Video examples
The emergence of drama...
actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater must be built outside the city wall. One of the first theaters was built like a larger version of a pageant,
Video examples
"Good" and "bad" are...
or the girl with the walker and the communication device who is a precious little angel. This story rears its head in my daughter's life around Christmastime, when certain people get positively giddy at the thought of seeing her in angel's wings and a halo at the pageant.
Video examples
Jodi Cobb: What Is...
continents to explore cultural notions of beauty and attraction I tried to explore the the commercial side of beauty and how concepts of beauty have become distorted around the world I mean this doesn't exist in nature please this is a children's beauty pageant she's six
Video examples
Ken Jennings: Watson,...
cheering on their little darling, having poured millions of dollars into this hoping against hope that the humans screw up, and holding up "Go Watson" signs and just applauding like pageant moms every time their little darling got one right.
Video examples
How I went from child...
positive, life-changing events that have happened to me are thanks to those people who are different than me. It was at this moment that I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and compete in a pageant wearing a hijab and burkini.
Video examples
George Takei and the...
I want to be an actor right that's folks he knew what my passion was my a school teacher cast me and this was in grammar school or even okay she cast me in my first acting role a Thanksgiving pageant
Video examples
Why I must come out PIPE...
I won best in swimsuit and best in long gown and placed second runner up among 40-plus candidates. That moment changed my life. All of a sudden, I was introduced to the world of beauty pageants.
Video examples
See What Canyon Life Is...
pageants and be Miss Venetian these young ladies they're really unique you guys all look beautiful to be in that project you have to put your sheet
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Quote examples
Olivia Culpo
American Actress
If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.
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Lara Dutta
Indian Actress
Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what's important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.
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Hannah Brown
American Celebrity
I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live my life by a certain way that I was proud of and to have those opportunities for scholarship.
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Joyce Giraud
Puerto Rican Actress
Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.
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Shanna Moakler
Most women in pageants love the actual pageant - the competition, the show. They don't understand that it is actually a real job that you are paid a real salary for.
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Sobhita Dhulipala
Indian Actress
Miss Earth, to me, means a lot more than an international beauty pageant. It implies a larger than life celebration of spirit, beauty, passion, and betterment.
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Manushi Chhillar
Indian Model
I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to be at a beauty pageant at least once in life.
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Catriona Gray
Filipino Model
Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.
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Urvashi Rautela
Indian Actress
When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.
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Katherine Webb
American Model
Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.
Quote examples
Olivia Culpo
American Actress
If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.
Quote examples
Lara Dutta
Indian Actress
Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what's important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.
Quote examples
Hannah Brown
American Celebrity
I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live my life by a certain way that I was proud of and to have those opportunities for scholarship.
Quote examples
Joyce Giraud
Puerto Rican Actress
Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.
Quote examples
Shanna Moakler
Most women in pageants love the actual pageant - the competition, the show. They don't understand that it is actually a real job that you are paid a real salary for.
Quote examples
Sobhita Dhulipala
Indian Actress
Miss Earth, to me, means a lot more than an international beauty pageant. It implies a larger than life celebration of spirit, beauty, passion, and betterment.
Quote examples
Manushi Chhillar
Indian Model
I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to be at a beauty pageant at least once in life.
Quote examples
Catriona Gray
Filipino Model
Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.
Quote examples
Urvashi Rautela
Indian Actress
When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.
Quote examples
Katherine Webb
American Model
Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.
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