prom

Clipping of promenade.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

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?

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. :-)

• dance with the one that brought you

• romp

prom

1. away
2. off

• projām

• pram, prum, prym (Middle Polish)

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Syllabification: prom

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

• 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

prom (genitive proma, plural proms)

1. promise

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• IPA^(key): /prom/

prom c (plural prommen, diminutive promke)

1. (Clay) plum

• prûm (Wood)

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