procession

IPA: prʌsˈɛʃʌn

The act of progressing or proceeding.
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 number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
(ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
(cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.

(intransitive) To take part in a procession.
(transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
(transitive, law, US, North Carolina, Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).

Examples of "procession" in Sentences

And the inaugural train procession will get first priority on the tracks.
At the head of the procession is the Bible, then the Mace and the scales of justice.
So I wanted to get this quality as opposed to depicting them as bunch solemn medieval monks in procession weighted down by their intellectual labors.
Performances, however, have improved since defeat at Everton last month and the Blackburn manager welcomes his side's billing as the sideshow to a title procession.
The Pope Serving at Supper: Conducted in procession from the northern transept, the Pope walks across the nave of St. Peter's to a stair which leads to a large apartment above the portico.
This paper gathered that the party members have planned what they described as a procession amidst brass band music, signing and dancing to welcome Nana Akufo-Addo, who they consider to be their messiah.
The Morning Herald's description of the procession is an exact transcription of the stage directions of the published version of the play, and it raises questions which cut to the quick of this opera's relation to colonial politics (176).