A group of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly line, often as part of a ceremony or parade. It can also mean a series of things happening one after another.
From Latin *processio* meaning 'a going forth', from *procedere* 'to go forward'. It came into English through Old French with the sense of a formal, forward movement.
A procession is a moving symbol: how people line up and walk tells you who or what is being honored. Funerals, graduations, protests, and weddings all use processions to turn movement into meaning. The order of bodies becomes a kind of temporary sentence written in space.
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