Meanings
nounmotorcade (plural motorcades)
plural motorcades
- collectiveA procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.
JFK was assassinated in a motorcade.
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The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126
verbmotorcade (third-person singular simple present motorcades, present participle motorcading, simple past and past participle motorcaded)
present singular third person motorcades · participle present motorcading · participle past motorcaded · past motorcaded
- intransitiveTo travel in a motorcade.
We then motorcaded to our hotel to change into formal wear[…]
2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 147
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 車隊 /车队, 汽車行列 /汽车行列
- 車隊 /车队 (chēduì)procession of cars
- 汽車行列 /汽车行列 (qìchē hángliè)procession of cars
Dutch autocolonne
- autocolonneprocession of cars
Estonian autokolonn
- autokolonnprocession of cars
Finnish autokulkue
- autokulkueprocession of cars
French cortège motorisé
- cortège motoriséprocession of cars
German Autokolonne, Wagenkolonne
- Autokolonneprocession of cars
- Wagenkolonneprocession of cars
Greek αυτοκινητοπομπή
- αυτοκινητοπομπή (aftokinitopompí)procession of cars
Hungarian autósor
- autósorprocession of cars
Icelandic bílalest
- bílalestprocession of cars
Italian corteo di automobili, corteo di auto
- corteo di automobiliprocession of cars
- corteo di autoprocession of cars
- sfilata di automobiliprocession of cars
Japanese 車列
- 車列 (sharetsu)procession of cars
Polish parada samochodowa
- parada samochodowaprocession of cars
Portuguese carreata, cortejo automóvel
- carreataprocession of cars
- cortejo automóvelprocession of cars
Russian автоколо́нна
- автоколо́нна (avtokolónna)procession of cars
Spanish caravana
- caravanaprocession of cars
Swedish bilkortege
- bilkortegeprocession of cars
Welsh modurgad
- modurgadprocession of cars
Cite this entry
APA
motorcade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motorcade
MLA
“motorcade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motorcade. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “motorcade,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motorcade.
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