Definitions for proem

proem pro·em

Spelling: [proh-em]
IPA: /ˈproʊ ɛm/

Proem is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in proem (emopr).

Definitions for proem

noun

  1. an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.

Origin of proem

1350-1400; Latin prooemium Greek prooímion prelude (pro- pro-2 + oím(ē) song + -ion diminutive suffix); replacing Middle English proheme Middle French Latin

Examples for proem

After writing these words I read to G. the proem and opening scene of my novel, and he expressed great delight in them.

After deploring, in the proem of Sister Songs, the lateness of the season, it is suddenly upon him.

If correctly given the centre letters of the lights will give the proem.

Pampinea was the eldest (proem), and by inference Elisa the youngest.

See his own acknowledgment in the proem to the poems of 1842.

And in the proem to the same book, Fon on ꝼιꞇꞇe, "Put into (fitt) verse."

I sent you the proem, which you published as a preface to the "Froissart Ballads."

For though he "may now call myself free," that proem tells us that after all we owe the Decameron itself indirectly to Fiammetta.

It is in the form of a "proem" to a treatise on the Interpretation of Nature.

But the vale of Llangollen is only the proem to the true epopea, the high mountain district.

Word Value for proem
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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