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pro

noun
/pɹəʊ/UK/pɹoʊ/US

Etymology

From Late Middle English pro, from Latin prō (“on behalf of”).

  1. derived from prō
  2. inherited from pro

Definitions

  1. An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).

    • What are the pros and cons of buying a car?

  2. A person who supports a concept or principle.

  3. In favor of.

    • He is pro exercise but against physical exertion, quite a conundrum.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A professional sportsman.

    2. Professional.

      • When it comes to DIY, he's a real pro.

    3. A prostitute.

      • 1974, "Fynn" (Sydney Hopkins), Mister God, This Is Anna Millie was one of the dozen or so pros who had a house at the top of the street.

    4. A proproctor.

    5. A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.

    6. A surname from Spanish.

    7. Initialism of pressure retarded osmosis.

    8. Initialism of patient-reported outcome.

    9. A theoretical phonologically null pronoun

    10. Used to indicate personal pronoun in sign language glosses, e.g. PRO.1 or PRO-1 for the…

      Used to indicate personal pronoun in sign language glosses, e.g. PRO.1 or PRO-1 for the first person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pro. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pro. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at pro

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA