The word is a of promenade, and a promenade is a walk taken for pleasure and in company, where being out among other people is half the point. Hold that: a stroll, a crowd, a little display. The seaside prom is the place you do it. The London proms are concerts where the cheap floor is full of people standing and moving rather than sitting. The American prom is the night students dress up and walk in.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the etymology of prom simply as 'Clipping of promenade.' The three modern uses are three different things you can do on a promenade, each of which kept the short name.
維基詞典對 prom 的字源只寫一句:promenade 的縮略形。今天的三個意思,可以想成是在 promenade 這個畫面上做的三件不同的事,而每一件都留下了同一個短名字。
Wiktionary etymology for 'prom' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:302984819): 'Clipping of promenade.'
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Promname詞源 1
- 1
A surname.
promnoun/pɹɑm/
- 1
A promenade concert.
- 2
A promenade.
- 3
A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.
- Would you like to be my prom date?
- The greatest moment in my life was the junior/senior prom that we had back in April 2009.
promverb/pɹɑm/
- 1
informalTo attend a prom.
- : If I read this correctly, Pop Clifton graduated from high school : at the age of 15. Awesome. Probably took a cheerleader to the prom. : Whatta stud. Stud indeed. I'm glad to be married to a man of such talent and experience -- though so far as I know, his experiences do not include promming with cheerleaders.
- > > my prom is in about 3 weeks, which isn't much in prom time. […] but his boss treats him like shit, which really makes the money not worth it. regardless of promming or not promming, tom should really start looking for another job.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- programmable read-only memory
- prelabor rupture of membranes
- passive range of motion
- Prome
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。