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Prom   /prɑm/   Listen
Prom

noun
1.
A formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year.  Synonym: promenade.






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"Prom" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a bluff, but his engaging manner carried him through. When he went away to the state university he made Fanny solemnly promise to write; to come down to Madison for the football games; to be sure to remember about the Junior prom. He wrote once—a badly spelled scrawl—and she answered. But he was the sort of person who must be present to be felt. He could not project his personality. When he came home for the Christmas holidays Fanny was helping in the store. He dropped ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... AGONIZED VOICE. (Prom an inner apartment.) Minnie, run out and give Captain Gadsby some tea, and tell him I shall be ready in ten minutes; and, O Minnie, come to me an instant, there's ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Prom" :   promenade, formal, ball



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