Jump to content

prom

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: Prom and PROM

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

Clipping of promenade.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

prom (plural proms)

  1. (British) A promenade concert.
  2. (British, abbreviation) A promenade.
  3. (US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.
    Would you like to be my prom date?
    The greatest moment in my life was the junior/senior prom that we had back in April 2009.

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

prom (third-person singular simple present proms, present participle promming, simple past and past participle prommed)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To attend a prom.
    • 1993 December 13, Karen Lofstrom, “Announcement”, in talk.bizarre‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:
      : If I read this correctly, Pop Clifton graduated from high school
      : at the age of 15. Awesome. Probably took a cheerleader to the prom.
      : Whatta stud.
      Stud indeed. I'm glad to be married to a man of such talent and experience -- though so far as I know, his experiences do not include promming with cheerleaders.
    • 1999 May 12, Aimee Lortskell, “-I-have no prom date!”, in rec.music.tori-amos‎[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:
      > > my prom is in about 3 weeks, which isn't much in prom time. […]
      but his boss treats him like shit, which really makes the money not worth it. regardless of promming or not promming, tom should really start looking for another job.
    • 2003 February 7, Jim Lesurf, “Whatever happened to graphic equalizers?”, in uk.rec.audio‎[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:
      However once I'd had the chance to actually start attending proms I realised the BBC were doing a decent job or letting you hear what it was like in the hall! If anything, they were giving a clearer result than you could get when promming. :-)

See also

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

Latvian

[edit]

Adverb

[edit]

prom

  1. away
  2. off

Synonyms

[edit]

Polish

[edit]
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish prom, from Proto-Slavic *pormъ.

Pronunciation

[edit]
 
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔm
  • Syllabification: prom

Noun

[edit]

prom m inan (diminutive promik or (rare) promek or (Middle Polish) promnica, augmentative promisko, related adjective promowy)

  1. ferry (boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another)
  2. (astronautics) shuttle
    prom kosmiczny ― space shuttle

Declension

[edit]
Declension of prom
singular plural
nominative prom promy
genitive promu promów
dative promowi promom
accusative prom promy
instrumental promem promami
locative promie promach
vocative promie promy

Derived terms

[edit]
nouns

Further reading

[edit]

Volapük

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

prom (nominative plural proms)

  1. promise

Declension

[edit]
Declension of prom
singular plural
nominative prom proms
genitive proma promas
dative prome promes
accusative promi promis
vocative 1 o prom! o proms!
predicative 2 promu promus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

West Frisian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

prom c (plural prommen, diminutive promke)

  1. (Clay) plum

Alternative forms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • “prom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=prom&oldid=88486187"