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procession
     1. n. The act of progressing or proceeding.
     2. n. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
           a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession
     3. n. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
     4. n. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
     5. v. (intransitive) To take part in a procession
     6. v. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
     7. v. (transitive, legal, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).

Example Sentences

The funeral procession reached the burial site, where a hole had been dug that smelled of fresh earth. 



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