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pro¹

  • /pɹəʊ/ UK
  • /pɹoʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

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

noun pros

  1. An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons). What are the pros and cons of buying a car?

    Similar: advantage, plus, upside · Opposite: con, disadvantage, downside, minus

  2. A person who supports a concept or principle.

    Opposite: anti

preposition

  1. In favor of. He is pro exercise but against physical exertion, quite a conundrum.

    Opposite: anti

pro²

  • /pɹəʊ/ UK
  • /pɹoʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of professional.

noun pros

  1. A professional sportsman.
  2. colloquial Professional. When it comes to DIY, he's a real pro.

adjective more pro · most pro

  1. Professional. He landed a pro mentorship gig.

pro³

  • /pɹəʊ/ UK
  • /pɹoʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of prostitute.

noun pros

  1. slang 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.

pro⁴

  • /pɹəʊ/ UK
  • /pɹoʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of proproctor.

noun pros

  1. UK, archaic, slang A proproctor.

pro⁵

  • /pɹəʊ/ UK
  • /pɹoʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of prophylaxis.

noun pros

  1. historical, slang A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.

Pro⁶

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Pro.

proper noun Pros

  1. A surname from Spanish.

PRO⁷

Where it comes from

Initialism.

noun PROs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of pressure retarded osmosis
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of patient-reported outcome In the bivariate analysis carried out by subgroups, we did not find statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between bionaïve or bioexperienced patients, patients with BMI < 30 or BMI > 30 in relation to the efficacy variables (PASI and BSA) and analyzed PROs (VAS pruritus and DLQI).

proper noun

  1. Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Police Regional Office
  2. US, abbreviation Abbreviation of Prohibition Party

PRO⁸

Where it comes from

From the term pronoun.

symbol

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: affirmative, professional, favoring, favour, expert, experienced, sake, job, promote, career, occupational, vocational, pursuit, protégé, occupation, employment

Translations

Every language

noun advantage of something

Portuguêspró
Françaisles pours, les avantages
Tiếng Việtưu điểm

prep in favor of

Portuguêspró
Italianoin favore di, pro
Tiếng Việtthuận
العربيةمَع maʕ

noun a professional sportsman

Françaispro

noun someone who is very good at something

Españolperito, experto
한국어프로 peuro
日本語プロ puro
Portuguêsespecialista, perito, profissa
Françaispro, expert
DeutschProfi
Italianoesperto
Русскийпро́фи prófi, профессиона́л professionál, спец spec

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@misc{pro_2026,
  title = {pro},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pro},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}