Usually means: Lying flat, face downward position.
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  1. prone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -prone, prone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prone, prone: Wordnik
  7. -prone, prone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prone: Wiktionary
  9. prone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prone: Dictionary.com
  13. prone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prone: Rhymezone
  19. Prone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prone: Free Dictionary
  22. prone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prone: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prone: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. prone: Legal dictionary

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  1. prone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Prone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. prone: Medical dictionary
  6. Prone: Brain Injury
  7. Prone: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PRONE: Acronym Finder
  2. prone: Idioms
  3. prone: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. prone: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prone: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lying face-down.
adjective:  Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
adjective:  Having a downward inclination or slope.
adjective:  (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.
verb:  (medicine) To place in a prone position, to place face down.
noun:  Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”) [Former name of Pyay, Myanmar.]

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