Meaning of "prance" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRANCE

Prauncen; perhaps related to German prangen to be in full splendour; compare Danish (dialect) pransk lively, spirited, used of a horse.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PRANCE

prance  [prɑːns]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRANCE

Prance is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prance in English.

WHAT DOES PRANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ghillean Prance

Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance FIBiol FRS FLS FRS is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica. Prance is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Definition of prance in the English dictionary

The first definition of prance in the dictionary is to swagger or strut. Other definition of prance is to caper, gambol, or dance about. Prance is also to move with high lively springing steps.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PRANCE

PRESENT

Present

I prance

you prance

he/she/it prances

we prance

you prance

they prance

Present continuous

I am prancing

you are prancing

he/she/it is prancing

we are prancing

you are prancing

they are prancing

Present perfect

I have pranced

you have pranced

he/she/it has pranced

we have pranced

you have pranced

they have pranced

Present perfect continuous

I have been prancing

you have been prancing

he/she/it has been prancing

we have been prancing

you have been prancing

they have been prancing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I pranced

you pranced

he/she/it pranced

we pranced

you pranced

they pranced

Past continuous

I was prancing

you were prancing

he/she/it was prancing

we were prancing

you were prancing

they were prancing

Past perfect

I had pranced

you had pranced

he/she/it had pranced

we had pranced

you had pranced

they had pranced

Past perfect continuous

I had been prancing

you had been prancing

he/she/it had been prancing

we had been prancing

you had been prancing

they had been prancing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will prance

you will prance

he/she/it will prance

we will prance

you will prance

they will prance

Future continuous

I will be prancing

you will be prancing

he/she/it will be prancing

we will be prancing

you will be prancing

they will be prancing

Future perfect

I will have pranced

you will have pranced

he/she/it will have pranced

we will have pranced

you will have pranced

they will have pranced

Future perfect continuous

I will have been prancing

you will have been prancing

he/she/it will have been prancing

we will have been prancing

you will have been prancing

they will have been prancing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would prance

you would prance

he/she/it would prance

we would prance

you would prance

they would prance

Conditional continuous

I would be prancing

you would be prancing

he/she/it would be prancing

we would be prancing

you would be prancing

they would be prancing

Conditional perfect

I would have prance

you would have prance

he/she/it would have prance

we would have prance

you would have prance

they would have prance

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been prancing

you would have been prancing

he/she/it would have been prancing

we would have been prancing

you would have been prancing

they would have been prancing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you prance
we let´s prance
you prance

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to prance

Past participle

pranced

Present Participle

prancing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PRANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prance» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of prance

bound · caper · cavort · dance · frisk · gambol · jump · leap · parade · romp · show off · showboat · skip · spring · stalk · strut · swagger · swank · trip

TRANSLATION OF PRANCE

Find out the translation of prance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of prance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prance» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 腾跃
• Translator English - Spanish: prance
• English: prance
• Translator English - Hindi: उछलना
• Translator English - Arabic: وثبة
• Translator English - Russian: гордая походка
• Translator English - Portuguese: Prance
• Translator English - Bengali: ঔদ্ধত্য প্রদর্শন করা
• Translator English - French: caracoler
• Translator English - Malay: Prance
• Translator English - German: tänzeln
• Translator English - Japanese: 闊歩
• Translator English - Korean: 뒷다리로 껑충 거리며 나아가 다
• Translator English - Javanese: Prance
• Translator English - Vietnamese: giặm chân sau
• Translator English - Tamil: துள்ளு
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रहार
• Translator English - Turkish: hoplamak
• Translator English - Italian: saltellare
• Translator English - Polish: brykać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: горда хода
• Translator English - Romanian: face pe grozavul
• Translator English - Greek: υπερήφανος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: steigeren
• Translator English - Swedish: prance
• Translator English - Norwegian: prance

2 QUOTES WITH «PRANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prance.

1

Liz Phair

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

2

Max Winkler

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRANCE»

Discover the use of prance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants

Magnoliopsida (dicots): Chrysobalanaceae: Hirtella I 20883 Brazil 20883 R Hirtella couepiiflora Prance 20883 I 20883 Brazil 20883 I 20883 Guyana 20883 R Hirtella cowanii Prance & Maguire 20883 I 20883 Venezuela 20883 R Hirtella  ...

Kerry Scott Walter, Harriet J. Gillett, 1998

Complete Collection of State Trials

Call Mr. Prance, and swear him. Which was done. Sir Cr. Levinz. Come on, Mr. Prance. What can you fay to Mr. Fenwick, or any of the others ? Prance. Mr. Harcourt, I made him an image of our lady about a year ago, and when I was receiving ...

Francis Hargrave, 1795

Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and ...

Call Mr. Prance, and swear him. Which was done. Sir Cr. Levinz. Come on, Mr. Prance. What can you say to Mr. Fenwick or any of the others ?. France. Mr. Harcourt, I made him an image of our Lady ahout a year ago, and when I was receiving ...

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, 1810

The Law Journal Reports

New, Prance, and Garrard's Truste thereby to shield and exonerate himself as far as possible from liability to the proceedings he is now or may at any time hereafter be exposed to by reason of such breaches of trust, is desirous of executing ...

‎1897

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ...

Call Mr. Prance, and swear him. Which was done. Sir Cr. Levin. Come on, Mr. Prance. What can you say to Mr. Feuwick or any of the others P France. Mr. Harcourt, I made him an image of our Lady about a year ago, and when I was receivmg ...

Thomas Jones Howell, David Jardine, William Cobbett, 1816

Using checklists and collections data to investigate plant ...

Zuce., S, D Hirtella caduca Fanshawe & Maguire, К Hirtella davisii Sandwith, M, S Hirtella duckei Huber, D Hirtella fasciculata Prance, D Hirtella glandulosa Spreng ., S Hirtella hhpidula Miq., I, K, S Hirtella myrmecophila Pilg., D Hirtella ...

H.D. Clarke, Vicki A. Funk, Tom Hollowell, 2001

Oral-Style South African Short Story in English: A. W. ...

C.R. Prance and Frank Brownlee have both been referred to by Gray as forerunners to Bosman, and Prance's Xante Rebella is discussed briefly by Ernest Pereira. Both writers used fictional narrators (Tante Rebella and Corporal Wanzi ...

Craig Mackenzie, 1999

A Complete Collection of State-trials, and Proceedings for ...

Mr. Prance, and swear him. Which was done. Sir Cr. Levinz. Come on, Mr. Prance. What can you say to Mr. Fenwick, or any of the others ? Prance. Mr. Harcourt, I made him an Image of our Lady about a Year ago, and when I was receiving ...

Thomas Salmon, Sollom Emlyn, 1730

A Complete Collection Of State-Trials And Proceedings For ...

Windham. Have you any thing to fay against Fenwick ? Dugdale. I don't know that I ever saw him before. Mr. Recorder. But he speaks fully as to the o- ther Four. □ Sir Cr. Levinz. Call Mr. Prance, and swear him. Which was done. Sir Cr. Levinz.

‎1730

A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for ...

This was confirmed by the maid, who, upon Hill's beine taken, went- to Newgate, and in a croud of prisoners, distinguished him, and said, he was the person that asked for her master the morning before, he was lost. Prance said, they dogged ...

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, 1816

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRANCE»

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From 75 years ago: Bugs Bunny's debut

It also gave Bugs yet another chance to prance around in drag as the Valkyrie Brunnhilde. Named in a 1994 poll of animators the greatest cartoon ever made, ... «KTVQ Billings News, Jul 15»

Film Review: 'Vacation'

Still, she escapes with slightly more dignity than does Chris Hemsworth, on hand mainly to prance about in his skivvies as the vain Texas TV ... «Variety, Jul 15»

One Direction perfect the modern boy-band model at TCF

They just prance around the stage, but they do it with such practiced verve that you don't feel like something's missing. You're really just busy ... «City Pages, Jul 15»

Do I sound gay, and does it matter anyway?

... subject back in March, when referring to his childhood, he told The Observer, “If I'd have been able to relax, prance around, sing in the street, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

The iPhone Is Ruining Your Summer

We watched a bull prance around the ring for ten solid minutes, refusing to be caught. It was hilarious. We saw fireworks so close the ashes ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

Rain Puts A Damper On Prospect Track Meet

Up next for Prospect track is the Prospect Prance that will take place on Columbus Day, Oct. 12. Thank you for reading 8 free articles on our site ... «Journal & Topics Newspapers Online, Jul 15»

MASTERCHEF DRAMA: Jessica Falls Victim To The Curse Of The …

Someone's gotta stay in the Lunar Module while Armstrong and Aldrin prance about on the Moon. And, hey. If she does open up that cheese ... «Pedestrian TV, Jul 15»

Local Roundup: Michigan City Lakers walk past Northwest Indiana …

Shane Prance (2-1) pitched five shutout innings for the win, allowing four hits. cComments. Got something to say? Start the conversation and be ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»

Lakers again beat Oilmen at MAC

"I think it's just coming to the field with confidence," Lakers starter Shane Prance said. "We play well. Pretty much all it comes down to is being ... «nwitimes.com, Jul 15»

Harry Styles' 'Inside Out' Cameo, Rainbow Flag Cape Uses, Proves …

NewNowNext says about Harry Styles on July 18, “He grabbed a rainbow Canadian flag from a fan in the crowd and then began to prance ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»