corteges

Solemn accompanying parades

Corteges is the plural of cortege, a formal procession.

The word most often describes funeral processions—the hearse followed by mourners' vehicles moving slowly to the cemetery: The cortege wound through the streets as onlookers removed their hats.

It can also mean any ceremonial procession or the retinue accompanying an important person.

ceremonial

procession

Formal moving line

  • paradeCeremonial public procession
  • entourageAttendants accompanying someone important
  • retinueAttendants of dignitaries

train · motorcade · dignitaries · royal · state funeral · honor guard · pageantry · cavalcade · march · attendants

funeral

procession

Formal moving line

motorcade · burial · cemetery · casket · funeral march · black cars · solemn · graveside · dirge · bereaved

Opposites
ceremonial tone

cortegescarnivals

Festive events with rides

celebrations · festivals · revelries · jubilees · fiestas

purpose and occasion

cortegesticker-tape parades

Celebrations with falling paper

victory parades · birth announcements

organizational structure

cortegesstampedes

Panicked mass flights

dispersals · mobs · riots · melees · scattering

Family

cortege

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G