prance

«prance» in Mova's school dictionary: to move in a lively, showy way, lifting the feet high… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (prances, pranced, prancing)

meaning for a pupil

To prance is to move in a lively, showy way, lifting the feet high, like a proud horse or a boastful person. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales of horses, soldiers and knights moving in a proud or showy way.

examples

• He pranced around, holding his head high. tree →
• The horses pranced along in armour. tree →
• The peacock came prancing across the lawn. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

In the corpora

• Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «prance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.