Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Provender (n.) Food or provisions.
(2) - Provender (n.) Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.

(1) - Prover (n.) One who, or that which, proves.

(1) - Proverb (v. i.) To write or utter proverbs.
(2) - Proverb (v. t.) To provide with a proverb.
(3) - Proverb (v. t.) To name in, or as, a proverb.
(4) - Proverb (n.) A drama exemplifying a proverb.
(5) - Proverb (n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
(6) - Proverb (n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
(7) - Proverb (n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.

(1) - Proverbial (a.) Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb.
(2) - Proverbial (a.) Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.