Definitions for prose

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prose prose

Spelling: [prohz]

IPA: /proʊz/

Prose is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in prose (eoprs).

Definitions for prose

noun

1. the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
2. matter-of-fact, commonplace, or dull expression, quality, discourse, etc.
3. Liturgy. a hymn sung after the gradual, originating from a practice of setting words to the jubilatio of the alleluia.

adjective

1. of, in, or pertaining to prose.
2. commonplace; dull; prosaic.

verb (used with object)

1. to turn into or express in prose.

verb (used without object)

1. to write or talk in a dull, matter-of-fact manner.

Origin of prose

1300-50; Middle English Middle French Latin prōsa (ōrātiō) literally, straightforward (speech), feminine of prōsus, for prōrsus, contraction of prōversus, past participle of prōvertere to tur

Examples for prose

Seymour and prose had both passed their examination, when the Aspasia was at Bombay.

prose can paint evening and moonlight, but poets are needed to sing the dawn.

Washington, DC, just a few blocks from Politics and prose bookstore.

prose must be rhythmical, and it may be as much so as you will; but it must not be metrical.

Why, you ought, prose,” replied Seymour; “you have never been on service yet.

prose has created an entire world populated with characters that jump off the page.

Well, prose, are you thinking of your friends in Cheap-side?

prose pleased only people whose intelligence was very subtle.

prose, that is, has attempted something to which it is not equal.

He himself describes them as "prose Recreations of a Rhymer."