Prance

Definition: Prance

Prance

Noun

1. A proud stiff pompous gait.

Verb

1. To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others: "He strut around like a rooster in a hen house.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Prance \Prance\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Pranced; present participle verb or noun Prancing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Prance

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Journey

Take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop; (move quickly).

Crosswords: Prance

Books

• A passion for plants : from the rainforests of Brazil to Kew Gardens : the life and vision of Ghillean Prance, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (reference)

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Expressions using "prance": prance about ♦ prance with glee ♦ prance with rage. Additional references.

Albanian

ngritje qirithi, ngrihet qirithi (rear, rear up), ngre kalin qirithi, lodron, krekosje (display, inflation, stalk, strut, swagger, swank), kapardisje (assumption, hoity toity, strut, swagger), kërcim (bounce, bouncing, bound, caper, dance, fly, footer, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, rebound, skip, spring, vault), kërcej (bounce, bound, capriole, cavort, dance, hop, jump, leap, skip, spit, spring), hidhet, eci kapardisur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نطط (jump), ‏وثبة (dart, gamba, leap, leaping, onrush, pounce, rebound, skip, start, vault), ‏تخطر تبختر, ‏تبختر (loll, lope, mince, parade, ponce about, strut, swagger, waddle), ‏طفرة (caper, jump, leap, pounce, rebound, start), ‏طفر (caper, cavort, skip, spring), ‏ركب جوادا طافرا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скок (bounce, bound, caper, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, lunge, saltation, skip, spring), скачам (bound, capriole, dance, jump, jump down, leap, skip, spring, start, up), разлудувам се (cavort, run riot), вървя важно, лудувам (caper, cavort, lark, romp, scamper about, tittup), подскачане (bounce, dap, jump, porpoising), подскачам (dap, gambol, jig, jump, jump up, leap up, skip, spring, tittup), перча се (flounce, parade, prank, rodomontade, roister, ruffle, splurge, swagger, swash), изправям се на задните си крака (ramp), държа се важно. (various references)

Chinese 

驤 . (various references)

Czech

vzpínat se (balk, curvet, jib, rear up), vzepnutí, vypínavá chùze, vyhazovat (kick out, waste), skok (bound, dash, Dido, dive, hop, jump, leap, look in, spring, vault). (various references)

Farsi 

سواراسب چموش شدن , خرامش ازروی تکبر, جفتک زدن , باتکبرراه رفتن (Brag, Swagger). (various references)

French

se pavaner, sautiller, gambade, caracoler, cabrioler, bond. (various references)

German

paradieren (display, flaunt, parade, to flaunt), tänzeln (Bob, flounce, mince, sashay, skip, trip), herumtanzen (frisk, gambol, to frisk, to gambol, waltz about, waltz around), herumhüpfen (bounce, caper, scamper, skip about, to scamper), hüpfen (bounce, Frisk, gambol, hop, hopping, leap, skim, skip, to frisk, to skip). (various references)

Greek 

κορδώνομαι (preen oneself on, strut), ιππεύω (bestride, hack, mount, ride), πήδημα ίππου (curvet), υπερήφανοσ (prideful, proud, uppish), χοροπήδημα (caper, gambol), αναπηδώ (bob, bounce, bound, jerk, jig, leap, ramp, rebound, recoil, spring, start), ανορθούμαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקפץ (caper, jump, leap), לפוש (jump, leap), לפזז (cavort, frolic, hop, leap), לרקו�" (caper, dance, foot, leap). (various references)

Hungarian

ágaskodás (prancing). (various references)

Indonesian

dompak (jump, leap). (various references)

Italian

pavoneggiarsi (strut, strut about, swagger), saltellare (bond, caper, cavort, Frisk, gambol, hop, jump, skip, trip), impennata (rearing, sudden rise, zoom), caracollare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

跳ねる (to bound, to hop, to jump, to leap, to prance, to spring up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はねる (to bound, to decapitate, to eliminate, to flip, to hop, to jump, to leap, to prance, to reject, to spring up). (various references)

Manx

joltaghey (traverse, weave). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancepray.(various references)

Portuguese

pavonear-se (coquet, parade, peacock, prank, strut, swagger), empinar-se, curveta (curvet, tittup), caracolear, caracolar (caracole), cabriola (caper, capriole, skip, tittup). (various references)

Romanian

face pe grozavul (be on stilts, feel one's oats, puff, show off, Snoot, swank, talk big, talk through one's hat), dansa (dance, foot, foot it, hop, shake a leg, step it), cabra. (various references)

Russian 

гарцевать (pranced). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

propinjati se, propinjanje (curvet), šepuriti se (peacock, strut, swagger), šepurenje (cockiness, ostentation, peacockery, strut, swagger). (various references)

Spanish

cabriola (antic, cabriole, caper, skip). (various references)

Swedish

stoltsera (crow, flaunt, flourish, strut, swagger), dansa (dance, foot it, step). (various references)

Turkish

zıplamak (bounce, bound, capriole, cavort, dap, gambol, hop, jump, leap, ricochet, skip), kasıla kasıla yürümek (swagger), hoplamak (caper, cavort, gambol, hop, jig, jump, leap), havalı yürümek. (various references)

Ukrainian

стрибок (bounce, bound, caper, curvet, dive, gambade, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, saltation, skip, souse, spirt, spring, spurt), ставати дибки (buck, rear up), хизуватися (plume oneself, pose, trot out), гордовита хода, пихатість (assuming, assumption, bombast, haughtiness, insolence, insolency, magniloquence, uppity). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nhảy dựng lên, động tác nhảy cỡn lên. (various references)

Welsh

prancio (caper), carlamu (gallop), carlam (gallop). (various references)

pronken. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prance": pranced, prancer, prancers, prances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apprnce, branca, brance, creaunce, erence, grance, parece, parne, phancy, planci, prac, Praca, prace, prancet, prancy, prane, prange, pranic, prannet, precn, Prenge, prience, princ, Princen, Princet, Princey, princi, princl, Prinnie, pronce, puriance, rpmance, Vranco. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arpen, caner, caper, crane, crape, nacre, pacer, pecan, rance, recap.

-2 letters: acne, acre, aper, cane, cape, care, carn, carp, crap, earn, nape, narc, neap, near, pace, pane, pare, pean, pear, race, rape, reap.

-3 letters: ace, ane, ape, arc, are, can, cap, car, cep, ear, era, ern, nae, nap, pac, pan, par, pea, pec.

+1 letter: caprine, pranced, prancer, prances.

+2 letters: apocrine, canephor, capering, caponier, catnaper, chaperon, coparent, endocarp, pancreas, parcener, parlance, pentarch, portance, prancers, preclean, preenact, procaine, unpacker.

+3 letters: canephors, caponiers, carpenter, carpentry, carpeting, catnapers, catnapper, chaperone, chaperons, coparents, copartner, crepitant, endocarps, epicurean, escarping, esperance, marchpane, mercaptan, panegyric, panickier, parceling, parcenary, parceners, parchment, parlances, paunchier, pecuniary, pentarchs, pentarchy, percaline, perchance, porcelain, portances, preaching, preacting, precancel, precisian, precleans, preenacts, prefacing, pregnancy, prelaunch, procaines, procreant, proscenia, pursuance, recapping, repacking, replacing, respacing, unpackers.