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praunce

praunce is the archaic form of prance.

Meaning of prance

Verb

prance (third-person singular simple present prances, present participle prancing, simple past and past participle pranced)

  1. To spring forward on the hind legs.
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) To strut about in a showy manner.
    • John's daughter was prancing about the sitting room, practicing for her school dance.

See all 3 meanings of prance

Forms of praunce

third-person singular presentpraunces
present participleprauncing
past participlepraunced
pastpraunced

Questions about praunce

What is praunce the archaic form of?
Praunce is the archaic form of prance.

Words near praunce in the dictionary

  1. pratylenchids
  2. Pratyush
  3. pratītyasamutpāda
  4. prau
  5. praught
  6. praunce
  7. praunced
  8. prauncer
  9. prauncers
  10. praunces
  11. prauncing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praunce (page history and authors); prance (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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