name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prom
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /pɹɑm/
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɹɒm/
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rhymes with -ɒm
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/pɹɒm/
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/pɹɑm/ father-bother merger
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CMU ARPABET: P R AA1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 3
A promenade concert.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 4
A promenade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation
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noun
Meaning 5
A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 6
Acronym of programmable read-only memory, a chip that can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all); once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: ROM, read-only memory, memory
noun
Meaning 7
Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ROM, rupture of membranes, rupture
noun
Meaning 8
Initialism of passive range of motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ROM, range of motion, range
verb
Meaning 9
To attend a prom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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noun
Meaning 10
a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: promenade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ball, formal
History
Etymology
Clipping of promenade.
In all senses, by acronymy.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: kävelykatu — promenade
- Finnish: promenadi — promenade
- Hungarian: sétány — promenade
- Hungarian: sétahangverseny — a promenade concert
- Arabic: حَفْلَة مُوسِيقِيَّة — a formal ball
- Armenian: վերջին զանգ (verǰin zang) — a formal ball
- Armenian: վիպուսկնոյ (vipusknoy) — a formal ball
- Chinese Mandarin: 畢業舞會 /毕业舞会 (bìyè wǔhuì) — a formal ball
- Chinese Mandarin: 舞會 /舞会 (wǔhuì) — a formal ball
- Esperanto: balo — a formal ball
- Esperanto: abiturienta balo — a formal ball
- Finnish: tanssiaiset — a formal ball
- French: bal de promo — a formal ball
- French: bal des finissants — a formal ball
- French: bal du printemps — a formal ball
- Georgian: ბანკეტი (banḳeṭi) — a formal ball
- Georgian: გამოსაშვები საღამო (gamosašvebi saɣamo) — a formal ball
- German: Ball — a formal ball
- German: Abschlussball — a formal ball
- German: Prom — a formal ball
- German: Promenade — a formal ball
- German: Abiball — a formal ball
- Hungarian: diákbál — a formal ball
- Hungarian: szalagavató — a formal ball
- Hungarian: év végi iskolai bál — a formal ball
- Italian: ballo di fine anno — a formal ball
- Japanese: プロム (puromu) — a formal ball
- Japanese: プロムナード (puromunādo) — a formal ball
- Japanese: 舞踏会 (butōkai) — a formal ball
- Korean: 프롬 (peurom) — a formal ball
- Korean: 프롬나드 (peuromnadeu) — a formal ball
- Korean: 무도회 (mudohoe) — a formal ball
- Portuguese: baile de formatura — a formal ball
- Russian: бал (bal) — a formal ball
- Russian: выпускно́й ве́чер (vypusknój véčer) — a formal ball
- Russian: пром (prom) — a formal ball
- Swedish: bal — a formal ball
- Turkish: balo — a formal ball