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pageanting

pageanting is the present participle and gerund of pageant.

Meaning of pageant

Verb

pageant (third-person singular simple present pageants, present participle pageanting, simple past and past participle pageanted)

  1. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
    • He pageants us.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Questions about pageanting

What is pageanting the present participle and gerund of?
Pageanting is the present participle and gerund of pageant.

Words near pageanting in the dictionary

  1. pageanteer
  2. pageanteers
  3. pageanter
  4. pageanters
  5. pageantic
  6. pageanting
  7. pageantitis
  8. pageantlike
  9. pageantries
  10. pageantry
  11. pageants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pageanting (page history and authors); pageant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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