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Narrator: Today's word is "Prom" — noun, pronounced /prɒm/, with the stress on "prom".
Narrator: A prom is a formal dance held for students at the end of a school year.
Narrator: In plain English, it's the big end-of-school party.
Narrator: It is short for promenade, a formal walk or parade.
Narrator: A common collocation is "the school prom", which describes a leavers' dance.
Narrator: It differs from "disco", because a prom is formal, with suits and gowns.
Narrator: In Britain, the Proms are summer classical concerts, and the prom is a seafront walk.
Narrator: Education, fashion, music and events all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a prom is a formal dance, a concert or a seaside walk.
Speaker A: Did British schools always have proms?
Speaker B: No, it came from America! PROM is short for promenade, a formal walk.
Speaker A: So it's quite recent here?
Speaker B: Mostly since the two thousands.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She bought a dress for the prom", a dance. "We went to the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall", concerts. "Let's walk along the prom", the seafront.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Use a capital P for the Proms concerts, but lowercase for a school prom.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Ball is its cousin, formal is its twin, and dance is the plain alternative, but prom keeps its glittering charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "prom" in AI prompts — useful for event planning and ticketing apps.
Speaker A: How would event planning use it?
Speaker B: Organise the night.
Prompt: Create a checklist for organising a school prom for two hundred students, from venue to music.
Speaker A: And ticketing apps?
Speaker B: Manage entry.
Prompt: Build a ticket page for the prom with dietary choices and a QR code for entry.
Speaker A: Could it help budgets?
Speaker B: Yes, costs.
Prompt: Estimate a per-student prom ticket price from these venue, food and DJ costs.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Social posts.
Prompt: Write three short captions for a school's prom night photo album.
Prom — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary