Definition of prom
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: a formal dance given by a high school or college class
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Examples of prom in a Sentence
Are you going to the prom?
he resolved to ask her to the school prom at the first opportunity
Recent Examples of prom from the Web
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Proud mom Kelly shares a snap of Lola headed to prom in June 2018.
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He and Lacey go to prom together, but then drift apart in college.
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Last month, 17-year-old Allison Closs went viral for bringing an unusual date to prom: a life-size cardboard cutout of actor Danny DeVito (wearing a tie and everything).
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Eller's videos run the gamut from prepared discussions based on a specific question (Should Christians go to prom?
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Ben, who has Down syndrome, had no idea Rachel was going to ask him to senior prom.
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At times this feels like a valid riposte to the entirety of outrage culture, with its tsk-tsking of non-Mexican kids wearing sombreros as costumes or a white teenager wearing a qipao to prom.
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Last week, according to a story widely circulated at the school, a male senior at the school looked out his window one afternoon to find a female classmate standing outside his house, holding a sign asking him to prom.
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Gordon, a 17-year-old senior at Lindbloom High School, doesn’t go to prom until June.
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Origin and Etymology of prom
short for promenade
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First Known Use: 1879
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of prom for English Language Learners
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: a formal dance for high school students usually at the end of the school year
PROM Defined for Kids
noun
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Definition of prom for Students
: a usually formal dance given by a high school or college class
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