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# prance

verb (prances, pranced, prancing)

«prance» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To prance is to move in a lively, showy way, lifting the feet high, like a proud horse or a boastful person. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales of horses, soldiers and knights moving in a proud or showy way.

### Examples

- He pranced around, holding his head high. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#x1)
- The horses pranced along in armour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#x2)
- The peacock came prancing across the lawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## In Jewish tradition

To prance means to leap about proudly like a horse. The prophets use it for enemy horses and war chariots racing into battle.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads these scenes as warnings that mighty armies, like Assyria's and Egypt's, cannot stand against God's plan.

### Examples

- Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; (Prophets NAM.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prance/#x1)
- Prance, ye horses, and rush madly, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield, and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. (Prophets JER.46.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prance/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «prance» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prance/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«prance» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/prance.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «prance» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prance/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«prance» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/prance.html) on Mova free.