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prowest

prowest is the superlative form of prow.

Meaning of prow

Adjective

prow (comparative prower, superlative prowest)

  1. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.
    • For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about prowest

What is prowest the superlative form of?
Prowest is the superlative form of prow.

Words near prowest in the dictionary

  1. Prowers
  2. Prowers County
  3. prowess
  4. prowessed
  5. prowesses
  6. prowest
  7. prowestern
  8. prowfish
  9. prowfishes
  10. prowhaling
  11. prowhite

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