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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#x1)
- The horses pranced along in armour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#x2)
- The peacock came prancing across the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.35/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.