cortege vs procession

cortege and procession both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cortege	Yes	No	No	No
procession	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, procession is a hypernym of cortege; that is, procession is a word with a broader meaning than cortege:

cortege: a funeral procession
procession: the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation

cortege (noun)	procession (noun)
the group following and attending to some important person	the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
a funeral procession	the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
	(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost