prance
prance is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
- intransitive verb. To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.
- intransitive verb. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.
- noun. a proud stiff pompous gait
- verb. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
"He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
- verb. ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward
- verb. cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
- verb. spring forward on the hind legs
"The young horse was prancing in the meadow"
Synonyms
strut, swagger, cock, ruffle, sashay, tittup
Common word forms
pranced, prancer, prances, prancing, pranceful
Words from these letters
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