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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nautical The forward part of a ship's hull; the bow.
  2. n. A projecting forward part, such as the front end of a ski.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The fore part of a ship; the bow; the beak.
  2. n. In zoôl., a prora.
  3. n. Profit; advantage; benefit.
  4. Valiant.
  5. n. An obsolete form of proa.

Wiktionary

  1. n. nautical The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
  2. n. See proa.
  3. adj. Archaic Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.
  4. n. obsolete Benefit; profit; good; advantage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. front part of a vessel or aircraft

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old French prou, from Late Latin prode; more at proud. (Wiktionary)
  2. French proue, from Old French, from Italian dialectal prua, from Vulgar Latin *prōda, alteration of Latin prōra, from Greek prōira. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “On the high curve of the prow was a device Argurios had not seen on any other ship, a wooden structure bolted to the deck in four places.”

    Lord of the Silver Bow

  • “In the deepening twilight, the vessel's strakes gleamed like the feathers of a swan and her prow was a proud and graceful curve.”

    The Falcons of Montabard

  • “Her prow was a dragon's head, a dragon's tail formed her stern, and dragon's wings bore her along swifter than an eagle before the storm.”

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)

  • “Her poop and her prow were the only points of her hull that were exposed, and these towered so high above the bulwarks of all other vessels that to attempt to board her was both useless and dangerous.”

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age

  • “She was fashioned of oak, all bolted together with iron, and at her prow was a gilded dragon most wonderfully carved.”

    Eric Brighteyes

  • “The prow, which is solid, has a flat terrace, on which, for the king's up-country excursions, they mount a small field-piece, a nine or a twelve pounder.”

    The English Governess at the Siamese Court

  • “Upon the prow was a sort of fortress, on which stood a group of soldiers armed with long spears and with large oval shields, on which were painted hieroglyphic devices”

    The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage

  • “To crown all, seated sideways in the high, open shark's-mouth of our prow was a little dwarf of a boy, one of Media's pages, a red conch-shell, bugle-wise suspended at his side.”

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

  • “(By the prow was the fatal lady ordained to be the guide.)”

    Zanoni

  • “Standing on the prow was a tall man, of a dark complexion, who saw with dilating eyes that they were approaching a dark mass of land in the shape of a cone, which rose from the midst of the waves like the hat of a Catalan.”

    The Count of Monte Cristo

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. valiant
  1. brave
  1. gallant
  1. courageous
  1. benefit
  1. profit
  1. good
  1. advantage
  1. bowl

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. front

same context (14)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. keel
  2. mast
  1. helm
  2. flotilla
  1. hull
  2. bow
  1. tiller
  2. gunwale
  1. poop
  2. rudder
  1. stern
  2. bowsprit
  1. paddle
  2. oar

rhymes (61)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bilbao
  2. Bow
  3. Chao
  4. Chow
  5. Dow
  6. Frau
  7. Howe
  8. Lao
  9. Liao
  10. Macao
  11. Macau
  12. Mao
  1. Mindanao
  2. Plough
  3. Plow
  4. Qingdao
  5. Tao
  6. Yao
  7. allow
  8. avow
  9. bao
  10. bough
  11. bow
  12. brough
  1. brow
  2. chow
  3. ciao
  4. clough
  5. cow
  6. disallow
  7. disavow
  8. dow
  9. endow
  10. fao
  11. frau
  12. gow
  1. hao
  2. hau
  3. how
  4. howe
  5. kowtow
  6. lough
  7. mao
  8. meow
  9. now
  10. ow
  11. plough
  12. plow
  1. pow
  2. powe
  3. sao
  4. scow
  5. shough
  6. skow
  7. sow
  8. tao
  9. thao
  10. thou
  11. vow
  12. wow
  1. yow

reverse dictionary (29)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gondola
  2. ice-ram
  3. prew
  4. figurehead
  5. mackinaw
  1. dory
  2. cutwater
  3. carinate
  4. protome
  5. bow
  1. bump
  2. prora
  3. prore
  4. rambade
  5. settee
  1. beak
  2. forebeak
  3. forefoot
  4. stem
  5. hydroplane
  1. ram
  2. rostrum
  3. sharpie
  4. galley
  5. stern
  1. keel
  2. mackinaw boat
  3. semis
  4. snout

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  • JTroyer "Sarayu was sitting in the prow, lokking at him." The Shack by WM Paul Oct 1, 2010

  • bilby Do their mermaids have nipples? May 13, 2009

  • madmouth Jeju has endless coffeeshops whose logos are clearly ripped off from the Starbucks logo, but whose names are totally unrelated...except for Prowbucks. May 13, 2009

  • bilby
    There is a memory stays upon old ships,
    A weightless cargo in the musty hold, --
    Of bright lagoons and prow-caressing lips,
    Of stormy midnights, -- and a tale untold.
    They have remembered islands in the dawn,
    And windy capes that tried their slender spars,
    And tortuous channels where their keels have gone,
    And calm blue nights of stillness and the stars.
    - David Morton, 'Old Ships'. Oct 4, 2008

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