prow
English
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /pɹaʊ/Category:English 1-syllable words#PROWCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROW
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PROWAudio (Southern England): (file) - IPA(key): (obsolete) /pɹoʊ/[1]Category:English 1-syllable words#PROWCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROW
- Rhymes: -aʊCategory:Rhymes:English/aʊ#PROWCategory:Rhymes:English/aʊ/1 syllable#PROW
Etymology 1
From Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#PROW proue, proe, from LigurianCategory:English terms derived from Ligurian#PROW prua, proa, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PROW prōra, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PROW πρῷρα (prōîra).
Noun
prow (plural prows)Category:English lemmas#PROWCategory:English nouns#PROWCategory:English countable nouns#PROWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROWCategory:Pages with entries#PROWCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PROW
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#PROW) The front part of a vessel.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.Category:English terms with quotations#PROW
- 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:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PROW
- A vessel.
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PROWCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PROW prow, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PROW prou, from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#PROW prode; more at proud.
Adjective
prow (comparative prower, superlative prowest)Category:English lemmas#PROWCategory:English adjectives#PROWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROWCategory:Pages with entries#PROWCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PROW
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#PROW) Brave, valiant, gallant. [2]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay […]Category:English terms with quotations#PROW
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Etymology 3
Noun
prow (plural prows)Category:English lemmas#PROWCategory:English nouns#PROWCategory:English countable nouns#PROWCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROWCategory:Pages with entries#PROWCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PROW
- Alternative form of proa.