motorcade

noun

mo·​tor·​cade ˈmō-tər-ˌkād How to pronounce motorcade (audio)
: a procession of motor vehicles
motorcade intransitive verb

Examples of motorcade in a Sentence

the next part of the parade was a motorcade of fire engines
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Later on Friday, the Vance family arrived by motorcade at the Disneyland Resort, and the family was spotted at Disneyland on Saturday morning surrounded by heavy security. Erika Ritchie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025 Social media video showed Vance’s motorcade arriving at the Disneyland resort around 6 p.m. on Friday and the vice president walking with his family through Bayou Country at Disneyland around 10 a.m. Saturday. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 13 July 2025 President Donald Trump was spotted wearing reading glasses in his motorcade over the weekend, a rare sighting of the president who reportedly avoids using them in public. Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 One described the work as boring, little more than copying and pasting bank account info between scammers and motorcades. Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for motorcade

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of motorcade was in 1910

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“Motorcade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motorcade. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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motorcade

noun
mo·​tor·​cade ˈmōt-ər-ˌkād How to pronounce motorcade (audio)
: a parade of motor vehicles

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