PROWESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prowess mean? 

• PROWESS (noun)
  The noun PROWESS has 1 sense:

1. a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

  Familiarity information: PROWESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROWESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

art; artistry; prowess

Context example:

it's quite an art

Hypernyms ("prowess" is a kind of...):

superior skill (more than ordinary ability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prowess"):

airmanship; aviation (the art of operating aircraft)

eristic (the art of logical disputation (especially if specious))

falconry (the art of training falcons to hunt and return)

fortification (the art or science of strengthening defenses)

homiletics (the art of preaching)

horology (the art of designing and making clocks)

minstrelsy (the art of a minstrel)

musicianship (artistry in performing music)

enology; oenology (the art of wine making)

puppetry (the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows)

taxidermy (the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance)

telescopy (the art of making and using telescopes)

ventriloquism; ventriloquy (the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy))

 Context examples 

The sled- dogs had forgotten his prowess.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

I likened him to some great tiger, a beast of prowess and prey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Might some of us, more than others, harbor Neanderthal-derived gene variants that may bias our brains toward trading sociability for visuospatial prowess – or vice versa?

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

By evening Perrault secured another dog, an old husky, long and lean and gaunt, with a battle-scarred face and a single eye which flashed a warning of prowess that commanded respect.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Jackson, on account of his prowess and of the tact which he possessed, had been chosen as general regulator of the whole prize-fighting body, by whom he was usually alluded to as the Commander-in-Chief.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bring him hither, Chandos, and, certes, if the Lord Loring hath resigned his claim upon this goblet, it is right and proper that this cavalier should carry it to France with him as a sign of the prowess that he has shown this day.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went about in it with greater confidence, with a feeling of prowess that had not been his in the days before the battle with the lynx.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Often had he heard of Sir Nigel's prowess and skill with all knightly weapons, but all the tales that had reached his ears fell far short of the real quickness and coolness of the man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)