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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To spring forward on the hind legs. Used of a horse.
  2. v. To spring or bound forward in a manner reminiscent of a spirited horse.
  3. v. To ride a horse moving in such a fashion.
  4. v. To walk or move about spiritedly; strut.
  5. v. To cause (a horse) to prance.
  6. n. The act or an instance of prancing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make a show in walking; move proudly, lifting the feet with a rearing or capering motion: used of horses in high mettle.
  2. To ride with a rearing or capering motion; ride gaily, proudly, or insolently.
  3. To walk, strut, or caper in an elated, proud, or conceited manner.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncommon The act of prancing.
  2. v. of a horse To spring forward on the hind legs.
  3. v. colloquial, figuratively To strut about.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
  2. v. To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.
  3. v. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a proud stiff pompous gait
  2. v. cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
  3. v. spring forward on the hind legs
  4. v. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
  5. v. ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English prancen, prauncen ("to prance", literally, "to show off"), variant of Middle English pranken ("to prank"). Cognate with Bavarian prangezen, prangssen ("to put on airs"), Alemannic German pranzen ("to strut"). More at prank. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English prauncen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. gait
  1. ride
  1. sit
  1. locomote
  1. travel
  1. move
  1. go
  1. walk
  1. ride horseback

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  1. riderless
  2. milk-white
  1. frisk
  2. piebald
  1. rawboned
  2. roan
  1. restive
  2. coal-black
  1. half-broken
  2. sorrel
  1. trotting

rhymes (26)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Chance
  2. France
  3. Lance
  4. Nance
  5. Romance
  1. Vance
  2. advance
  3. anse
  4. askance
  5. chance
  1. crance
  2. dance
  3. enhance
  4. expanse
  5. finance
  1. glance
  2. hance
  3. lance
  4. nance
  5. perchance
  1. rance
  2. refinance
  3. romance
  4. stance
  5. trance
  1. underfinance

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. praunce
  2. caper
  3. cavort
  1. poids de marc
  2. tittup
  3. brank
  1. rampage
  2. caracole
  3. curvet
  1. frisk
  2. linch
  3. prance
  1. prankle
  2. ramp
  3. cavie
  1. coperta
  2. trip

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