pageant

The word “pageant” has 2 syllables: page-ant

It's pronounced as /ˈpædʒənt/


What is synonym and antonym for pageant?

In the thesaurus, “pageant” has 32 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for pageant along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for pageant

Antonyms for pageant

  • hiding
  • reality
  • truth

Meanings of pageant

  • noun
    1. A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.
    2. An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
    3. A spectacular ceremony.
    4. A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.
  • verb
    1. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

Example Sentences

  • The small town hosted a vibrant summer pageant to celebrate local talent and community spirit.
  • Participants rehearsed tirelessly for the grand pageant, each hoping to leave a lasting impression.
  • The glittering costumes and dazzling performances made the beauty pageant a memorable event.
  • Families gathered to watch the holiday pageant featuring festive floats and cheerful characters.
  • In the historical square, a medieval-themed pageant transported spectators to a bygone era.

On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pageant, such as: cavalcade, celebration, charade, circus, demonstration, display, drama.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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fair

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  • pageant
  • pale
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fairs

  • auctions
  • demonstrations
  • displays
  • exhibitions
  • exhibits
  • expos
  • expositions
  • extravaganzas
  • offerings
  • pageants
  • performances
  • presentations
  • presentments
  • productions
  • sales
  • shows
  • spectacles

fakery

  • act
  • acting
  • affectation
  • appearance
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • burlesque
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • canard
  • cant
  • caricature
  • charade
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • claim
  • cloak
  • counterfeit
  • cover-up
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
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  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • deviousness
  • disguise
  • dishonesty
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • distortion
  • double-dealing
  • dream
  • dumb act
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • equivocation
  • erroneousness
  • error
  • evasion
  • excuse
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  • fallaciousness
  • fallacy
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falseness
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  • fantasy
  • farce
  • feigning
  • feint
  • fib
  • fibbery
  • fiction
  • figment
  • flimflam
  • forgery
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • gag
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • guise
  • half-truth
  • hanky-panky
  • hogwash
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocriticalness
  • imagination
  • imitation
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • invention
  • jive
  • jugglery
  • legerdemain
  • line
  • lying
  • make believe
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • mendacity
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • mockery
  • mountebankery
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • ostentation
  • pageant
  • perjury
  • pharisaism
  • phoniness
  • playacting
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • prevarication
  • put on
  • routine
  • ruse
  • sanctimoniousness
  • schtick
  • secrecy
  • sell
  • semblance
  • shadiness
  • sham
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • shuffling
  • simulation
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoke
  • smoothness
  • sneakiness
  • snow job
  • spoof
  • stall
  • stealthiness
  • story
  • stunt
  • subterfuge
  • swindling
  • tale
  • tall tale
  • travesty
  • treacherousness
  • trickery
  • two-facedness
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruism
  • untruth
  • untruthfulness
  • veil
  • veneer
  • whopper
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • yarn

faking

  • act
  • acting
  • ad-libbing
  • adulterating
  • affectation
  • affecting
  • appearance
  • artifice
  • assuming
  • beard
  • blind
  • bluffing
  • bogus
  • camouflage
  • camouflaging
  • carbon
  • carbon copy
  • charade
  • cheat
  • claim
  • cloak
  • coining
  • color
  • coloring
  • concealing
  • concealment
  • concocting
  • contriving
  • copy
  • costume
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • cover
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cribbing
  • deceit
  • deception
  • deceptive marking
  • dekeing
  • devising
  • disguise
  • disguising
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • dissimulation
  • doctoring
  • dodging
  • double-dealing
  • dress
  • dumb act
  • duplicating
  • evading
  • evasion
  • excuse
  • extemporizing
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • facade
  • face
  • fake
  • fakery
  • faking out
  • false appearance
  • false front
  • falsification
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fig leaf
  • forging
  • fraudulence
  • front
  • fudging
  • gag
  • getup
  • guise
  • hatching
  • illusion
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • improvising
  • insincerity
  • inventing
  • invention
  • juggling
  • juking
  • letting on
  • lookalike
  • make believe
  • making believe
  • making up
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • manufacturing
  • mask
  • masking
  • masquerade
  • masquerading
  • mimicry
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • ostentation
  • pageant
  • paint
  • pen name
  • phony
  • phonying
  • plagiarizing
  • plain brown wrapper
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • professing
  • protective coloring
  • pseudo
  • pseudonym
  • pump-faking
  • put on
  • putting on
  • red herring
  • reduplicating
  • replicating
  • reproducing
  • routine
  • ruse
  • schtick
  • screen
  • semblance
  • shade
  • sham
  • shamming
  • shroud
  • shuffling
  • sidestepping
  • simulating
  • simulation
  • slipping
  • smokescreen
  • stall
  • stunt
  • stutter-stepping
  • subterfuge
  • trickery
  • twin
  • veil
  • veneer
  • wile
  • workalike

fanciness

  • adornment
  • bauble
  • dazzle
  • decoration
  • dressing
  • embellishment
  • extravagance
  • extravaganza
  • fandangle
  • fanfare
  • flamboyance
  • flash
  • flashiness
  • foofaraw
  • frill
  • fussiness
  • garishness
  • garnishment
  • gaudiness
  • glitz
  • knickknack
  • luridness
  • luxuriance
  • luxuriousness
  • magnificence
  • meretriciousness
  • mummery
  • opulence
  • ornament
  • ornamentation
  • ostentation
  • ostentatiousness
  • pageant
  • pageantry
  • parade
  • pomp
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretentiousness
  • razzle-dazzle
  • razzmatazz
  • richness
  • show
  • showiness
  • spectacle
  • sumptuousness
  • swank
  • tawdriness
  • toy
  • trimming
  • trinket
  • vulgarity

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