Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "proem" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROEM

From Latin prooemium introduction, from Greek prooimion, from pro-² + hoimē song.
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF PROEM

proem  [ˈprəʊɛm] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROEM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proem is 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.

WHAT DOES PROEM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

proem

Preface

A preface or proem, is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who assisted in the literary work. A preface generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea for the book was developed; this is often followed by thanks and acknowledgments to people who were helpful to the author during the time of writing. A preface is usually signed; a foreword by another person is always signed. Information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an "Introduction" that may be paginated with Arabic numerals, rather than in the preface. The term preface can also mean any preliminary or introductory statement. It is sometimes abbreviated pref. Preface comes from the Latin, meaning either "spoken before" or "made before". While the former source of the word could have preface meaning the same as prologue, the latter strongly implies an introduction written before the body of the book.

Definition of proem in the English dictionary

The definition of proem in the dictionary is an introduction or preface, such as to a work of literature.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROEM


phloem
ˈfləʊɛm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROEM

production run
production values
productional
productive
productively
productiveness
productivity
productivity agreement
productivity bargaining
productivity bonus
proembryo
proemial
proenzyme
Proesch
proestrus
proette
prof
Prof.
proface
profamily

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROEM

anthem
em
Eminem
gem
hem
item
mem
poem
problem
prose poem
protophloem
seem
Sem
spoem
stem
symphonic poem
system
the system
them
tone poem

Synonyms and antonyms of proem in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «proem» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF PROEM

Find out the translation of proem to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of proem from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «proem» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

proem
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

proemio
570 millions of speakers

English

proem
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूमिका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فاتحة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

предисловие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proêmio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রস্তাবনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

préface
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Proem
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

proem
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前置き
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

proem
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Proem
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mở đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாயிரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

योजना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

önsöz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proemio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Proem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

передмову
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Proem
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προοίμιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorwoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proem
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Proem
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proem

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROEM»

The term «proem» is regularly used and occupies the 81.092 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
62
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «proem» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of proem
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «proem».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROEM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «proem» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «proem» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about proem

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROEM»

Discover the use of proem in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proem and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Essay on the Interpretation of the Proem to John's ...
William Johns. second personal deity, known from the beginning to be the Almighty Creator of all things, eternally existent with the first and third personal deity, but now become Godman, could John and his countrymen remain ignorant of his ...
William Johns, 1836
2
Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide
Aeneid. 1. An. Epic. Program. Christine Perkell Book 1 introduces the reader to programmatic epic conventions that define the Aeneid as heroic epic in the Homeric tradition. Among these are the proem, the episode, the speech, the simile, the ...
Christine G. Perkell, 1999
3
The Faerie Queene, Book One:
Every other proem extols the virtue that is the alleged theme of its book, called its “titular virtue”; but the first proem never mentions holiness, nor any other religious topic. It deals instead with issues affecting the entire poem: namely its genre ...
Edmund Spenser, Carol V. Kaske, Abraham Stoll, 1970
4
Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece
This is the case with the "king" who is supposed to have talked to the main characters in fragment 13a W2 of Mimnermus, and also of fragment 2 W2 from Tyrtaeus's Eunomia.33 As far as the proem is concerned, Bowie's source is Pausanias ...
Lowell Edmunds, Robert W. Wallace, 2000
5
The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts: The Promise and Its ...
Bowker's article is the most specific of these works, relating the sermon in Acts 13 to the pattern of the synagogue 'proem' homily. The typical synagogue service began with readings from the Pentateuch (the seder) and the Prophets (the ...
Mark L. Strauss, 1995
6
Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
THE ENIGMA OK LUCRETIUS PROEM We are now ready to turn to the most hotly and inconclusively debated passage in Lucretius, the proem to book l.64 It is structured as follows: 1-20: praise of Venus as Aeneadum genetrix and the life  ...
D. N. Sedley, 2003
7
Parmenides and To Eon: Reconsidering Muthos and Logos
As preliminary we infer that the proem establishes what is to come, it sets a stage or a tone, as it were. Although some philosophers have argued for the significance of the proem, few have concluded that how the poem begins is integral to the ...
Lisa Atwood Wilkinson, 2011
8
The New Simonides : Contexts of Praise and Desire: Contexts ...
The proem to lyric poetry served other purposes. In some cases it made it possible to use, within one festival, songs that had been, or could be, performed on other occasions; in other cases— above all, with the epinicia — the proem was an ...
Deborah Boedeker Professor of Classics Brown University, David Sider Professor of Classics Fordham University, 2001
9
The Historical Method of Herodotus
The proem apparently says too much or too little.90 The proem offers a prose imitation of the form and substance of epic proems; it voices the theme of great deeds and warfare, fear of oblivion (aKXea), connects itself to the first episode ...
Donald Lateiner, 1989
10
The Iliad, a Commentary
Usually a heroic song would have a specially composed proem like those of the Iliad and Odyssey. So much is suggested, among other evidence, by the opening of Pindar's second Nemean ode (the Homeridai most often begin from Zeus as ...
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, Richard Janko, Mark W. Edwards, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROEM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term proem is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Crowds 'Say No' to LANGO
The Venerable Proem Houn, who was among the protesters, said the government should focus its energy on solving land disputes and ... «The Phnom Penh Post, Jul 15»
2
New High Speed EMCCD Cameras Provide Unprecedented Low …
June 9, 2015 — Trenton, New Jersey — Princeton Instruments is pleased to announce an addition to the ProEM®-HS line of high-speed ... «Photonics Online, Jun 15»
3
Reports: ISU has picked its next head basketball coach
IT DOES APPEAR THAT THE REPORTS ARE TRUE FROM CBS AND ESPN THAT IT IS STEVE PROEM FROM MURRAY STATE. MOLLIE: ... «KCCI Des Moines, Jun 15»
4
Calamity review (Southbank theatre, Melbourne)
Dawson opens the show with a sort of theatrical proem. When she was a child, she says, the 1953 Hollywood musical version of Calamity Jane ... «Daily Review, May 15»
5
Putting one's foot into it
The section “Lesson for Dairy-Maid Cisley” opens with a proem from which we learn, among a few other things, that “bishop… turneth and ... «OUPblog, May 15»
6
Tech Class of 2014 officially graduates Saturday
However, a current professor will deliver a “proem” to open the ceremony. Tech is also hosting an alumni reception for all graduates, including ... «El Defensor Chieftain, May 15»
7
Man Made Out of Words, Part Two
He was the one who told me, “Have a proem. Use this poem as the proem.” It took me four months to get it out but it took me another few months ... «Boston Review, Apr 15»
8
"The Irony of Masada"
Josephus' intent with the narrative at Masada is best understood in light of the proem for War. There several themes are accented for further development in the ... «The Bible and Interpretation, Feb 15»
9
Langston Hughes' poetry still sings in 'The Weary Blues'
Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem) — “I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black,/ Black like the depths of my Africa” ... «The Philadelphia Tribune, Feb 15»
10
Rotary Club of Nairobi East Conquers Mt Kilimanjaro
Especially Toyota Kenya who gave us Sh 1M, Caroline Mutuko, Bank of Africa, Africa Trade Insurance, Airtel, GA Insurance, PROEM, Altimer ... «The Star, Jan 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Proem [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/proem>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z