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prancer

prancer noun: a person or animal (especially a horse) that prances.

Noun

prancer (plural prancers)

  1. A person or animal (especially a horse) that prances.

Proper noun capitalized: Prancer

Prancer

  1. The third reindeer of Santa Claus.

Forms of prancer

pluralprancers

Origin of prancer

From prance + -er.

First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From prancer.

Questions about prancer

What does prancer mean?
Prancer means a person or animal (especially a horse) that prances.
What part of speech is prancer?
Prancer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of prancer?
The plural of prancer is prancers.

Words near prancer in the dictionary

  1. pranayamas
  2. pranayams
  3. prance
  4. pranced
  5. pranceful
  6. prancer
  7. prancercise
  8. prancers
  9. prances
  10. prancesome
  11. prancier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prancer (page history and authors); Prancer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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