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A cavalcade is a line of people moving along as part of a ceremony — first it was riders on horses, and now it is often cars or carriages too. Think of official cars in a slow line, or festival riders through a town. It is a slightly grand, old-fashioned word; newspapers still like it for a procession. Though actually, people stretch it: “a cavalcade of stars” means a long parade of famous people, with no horses at all. It is not a cave, and it is not the army unit called the cavalry.
（典禮或遊行的）車隊、馬隊
組成From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). The pieces are about riding.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cavalcadenoun/ˈkæv.əlˌkeɪd/
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A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.
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A ceremonial parade.
- For the first three hours all went as well as could be expected, and then an accident happened that nearly lost us the pleasure of the company of our venerable friend Billali, whose litter was leading the cavalcade.
- In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
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A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
- Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.
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An often dramatic series or chain of events or things.
- As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.
cavalcadeverb/ˈkæv.əlˌkeɪd/
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To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
- Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading, but […]
- […] although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。