Definitions for prances

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prances prance

Spelling: [prans, prahns]

IPA: /præns, prɑns/

Prances is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in prances (acenprs).

Definitions for prances

noun

1. the act of prancing; a prancing movement.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to prance.

verb (used without object)

1. to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
2. to ride on a horse doing this.
3. to ride gaily, proudly, or insolently.
4. to move or go in an elated manner; cavort.
5. to dance or move in a lively or spirited manner; caper.

Origin of prances

1325-75; Middle English prauncen, praunsen (v.); akin to Danish (dial.) pransk spirited, said of a horse

Examples for prances

His spirit seemed to prance with joy like the horse beneath him.

No sooner had prance confessed than he withdrew his confession.

He gives it out that he's goin' to prance over to Red Dog an' lay for the Bug.

If the beggar comes in suddenly, and starts to prance, I'll rip him up and be done with it!

Last July, for the first time in nearly a decade, Joanna Rohrback discovered that she could prance once more.

He was so vexed he could do nothing but prance up and down the hall.

At one period to ramp and to prance seem to have been synonymous.

The thought that the beggar had started to prance darted through his mind.

The air was full of the whirl of limbs, the prance of hoofs, and snorts of alarm.

In spite of the efforts of the countryman the horse continued to rear and prance.