prom

See also: Prom and PROM

English

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prom

Wikipedia

Etymology

Clipping of promenade.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹɑm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɒm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

Noun

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.

   • 2011, “The Weekend” (32:42 from the start), in Homeland, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes):

     Brody (Damian Lewis): Will you go to the prom with me? / Carrie: Do I get a corsage?

Derived terms

• high school prom, high-school prom, highschool prom
• JS prom
• off like a prom dress
• prom-goer
• prom king, prom queen
• promposal

Translations

promenade — see also promenade

Finnish: kävelykatu (fi), promenadi (fi) Hungarian: sétány (hu)

a promenade concert — see also promenade concert

Hungarian: sétahangverseny (hu)

a formal ball

Arabic: حَفْلَة مُوسِيقِيَّة f (ḥafla(t) mūsīqiyya) Armenian: վերջին զանգ (verǰin zang), վիպուսկնոյ (vipusknoy) (colloquial) Chinese: Mandarin: 畢業舞會 / 毕业舞会 (bìyè wǔhuì), 舞會 / 舞会 (zh) (wǔhuì) Esperanto: balo, abiturienta balo Finnish: tanssiaiset (fi) pl French: bal de promo (fr), bal des finissants (fr) m (Canadian French), bal du printemps (Swiss French) Georgian: ბანკეტი (banḳeṭi), გამოსაშვები საღამო (gamosašvebi saɣamo) German: Ball (de) m, Abschlussball (de) m, Prom f, Promenade (de) f, Abiball (de) m Hungarian: diákbál (hu), szalagavató (hu), év végi iskolai bál Italian: ballo di fine anno Japanese: プロム (puromu), プロムナード (ja) (puromunādo), 舞踏会 (ja) (ぶとうかい, butōkai) Korean: 프롬 (peurom), 프롬나드 (peuromnadeu), 무도회 (ko) (mudohoe) Portuguese: baile de formatura Russian: (студенческий) бал (ru) m (bal), выпускно́й ве́чер (ru) m (vypusknój véčer) (graduation party), (US) пром m (prom) Swedish: bal (sv) Turkish: balo (tr)

See also

• dance with the one that brought you

Anagrams

• romp

Latvian

Adverb

prom

1. away
2. off

Synonyms

• projām

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

prom

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Alternative forms

• pram, prum, prym (Middle Polish)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔm/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈprom/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Syllabification: prom

Noun

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

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

nouns

• promnik
• promowiec
• promownik
• promowy

Further reading

• prom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• prom in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “PROM”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Marek Kunicki-Goldfinger (08.05.2023), “*PROM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “prom”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 1013
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “prom”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Volapük

Noun

prom (nominative plural proms)

1. promise

Declension

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

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prom/

Noun

prom c (plural prommen, diminutive promke)

1. (Clay) plum

Alternative forms

• prûm (Wood)

Further reading

• “prom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011