prom
/pɹɑm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.
American usage
noun
Acronym of programmable read-only memory, a chip that can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all); once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way).
noun
noun
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Would you like to be my prom date?"
- "The greatest moment in my life was the junior/senior prom that we had back in April 2009."
- "Brody (Damian Lewis): Will you go to the prom with me? / Carrie: Do I get a corsage?"
- ": If I read this correctly, Pop Clifton graduated from high school : at the age of 15. Awesome. Probably took a cheerleader to the prom. : Whatta stud. Stud indeed. I'm glad to be married to a man of such talent and experience -- though so far as I know, his experiences do not include promming with cheerleaders."
- "> > my prom is in about 3 weeks, which isn't much in prom time. […] but his boss treats him like shit, which really makes the money not worth it. regardless of promming or not promming, tom should really start looking for another job."
- "However once I'd had the chance to actually start attending proms I realised the BBC were doing a decent job or letting you hear what it was like in the hall! If anything, they were giving a clearer result than you could get when promming. :-)"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹɑm/
- British English: /pɹɒm/
Usage
- British usage
- American usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
high school prom
high-school prom
highschool prom
JS prom
off like a prom dress
prom-goer
prom king
prom queen