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prow en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /pɹoʊ/ (obsolete)
  • /pɹaʊ/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle French proue, proe, from Ligurian prua, proa, from Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prōîra).

Meanings

  1. The front part of a vessel.
    • We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
    • The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves. 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
  2. A vessel.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
prows Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

poop · aft · stern

Deriveds

prowlike · prowed · prowfish

Synonyms

prore · forestem · fore · stem · bow

Translations (48)

ga braine (fore part of a vessel; bow) · tr pruva (fore part of a vessel; bow) · hy քիթ (fore part of a vessel; bow) · bg нос (fore part of a vessel; bow) · tl doong (fore part of a vessel; bow) · grc πρῷρα (fore part of a vessel; bow) · uk ніс (fore part of a vessel; bow) · fi keula (fore part of a vessel; bow) · la rostrum (fore part of a vessel; bow) · fr proue (fore part of a vessel; bow) · is trjóna (fore part of a vessel; bow) · it prua (fore part of a vessel; bow) · nrf d'vant (fore part of a vessel; bow) · sk prova (fore part of a vessel; bow) · cs příď (fore part of a vessel; bow) · nl boeg (fore part of a vessel; bow) · vo föfanaf (fore part of a vessel; bow) · gd toiseach (fore part of a vessel; bow) · de Bugüberhang (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ca proa (fore part of a vessel; bow) · izh esinukka (fore part of a vessel; bow) · de Bug (fore part of a vessel; bow) · vo föfastev (fore part of a vessel; bow) · sh pramac (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ast proba (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ro proră (fore part of a vessel; bow) · eo pruo (fore part of a vessel; bow) · is skegg (fore part of a vessel; bow) · sh прамац (fore part of a vessel; bow) · sw gubeti (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ast proa (fore part of a vessel; bow) · nl voorsteven (fore part of a vessel; bow) · mi ihuwaka (fore part of a vessel; bow) · vi mũi (fore part of a vessel; bow) · pt proa (fore part of a vessel; bow) · it prora (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ru нос (fore part of a vessel; bow) · pl dziób (fore part of a vessel; bow) · la prora (fore part of a vessel; bow) · gl proa (fore part of a vessel; bow) · da forstavn (fore part of a vessel; bow) · sh prova (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ro provă (fore part of a vessel; bow) · pdt Bug (fore part of a vessel; bow) · sl premec (fore part of a vessel; bow) · es proa (fore part of a vessel; bow) · tl duong (fore part of a vessel; bow) · ga gob (fore part of a vessel; bow)

wikidata: Q301897

prow en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /pɹoʊ/ (obsolete)
  • /pɹaʊ/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English prow, from Old French prou, from Late Latin prode; more at proud.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.
    • For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
prowest Degree=Sup lexicographic
prower Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Relateds

prowess

Translations (2)

nl moedig (brave, valiant) · nl dapper (brave, valiant)

prow en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /pɹoʊ/ (obsolete)
  • /pɹaʊ/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of proa.
    alt of proa

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
prows Number=Plur lexicographic