Prance is THE ROOT WORD. If I say "The dog is prancing around the house" then the root word is prance.
The word is prance, as in to prance about.
The word prance is a verb. The past tense is prances.
I went to the circus and saw horses prance around the ring.
entry word
The word "prance" is typically stressed on the first syllable, with the second syllable being pronounced more softly. So it is "prance" with the emphasis on "prance".
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Horses prance with a lively gait.
Prance - to bound from the hind legs: to go with a capering or dancing movement: to move with exaggerated action: to swagger (taken from Chambers 20th Century dictionary)
reindeer do not prance they gal up
George Prance was born in 1827.