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Grammar : Adj
Spell : proh
Phonetic Transcription : proʊ



Définition of pro

Origin :
  • 1866, shortening of professional (n.). The adjective is first recorded 1915 (in golfing's pro shop).
  • adj supporting
Example sentences :
  • C4-6 are a reduplication, not unnatural indeed, but pro tanto tautological.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • “Yes, but not for motion without the ‘pro,’” objected de Spain.
  • Extract from : « Nan of Music Mountain » by Frank H. Spearman
  • You will never be happy if the pro and the con distress you alike.
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
  • Don't you see that with Sawyer on pro there's a big hole in the line?
  • Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • The Catholics raised the banner "Pro religione et libertate!"
  • Extract from : « The Story of Russia » by R. Van Bergen, M.A.
  • When we parted, did you go to Scotland, as you pro—o—po—sed?
  • Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
  • Pro' teus—an ocean deity who lived at the bottom of the sea.
  • Extract from : « Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca » by Homer
  • There was so much to be said, pro and con, that it was a most difficult point to decide.
  • Extract from : « The Story of My Life » by Egerton Ryerson
  • "I'm looking after the business just now," admitted the pro tem.
  • Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
  • When she had reacted from her first shock she fell to pondering the matter, pro and con.
  • Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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