Synonyms for pro
| 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
- 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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