What does prose mean?
Definitions for prose
proʊzpros·e
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Princeton's WordNet
prosenoun
ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
prosenoun
matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
Wiktionary
prosenoun
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
proseverb
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Prosenoun
Language not restrained to harmonick sounds or set number of syllables; discourse not metrical.
Etymology: prose, Fr. prosa, Lat.
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhime. John Milton.
The reformation of prose was owing to Giovanni Boccaccio, who is the standard of purity in the Italian tongue, though many of his phrases are become obsolete. Dryden.
A poet lets you into the knowledge of a device better than a prose writer, as his descriptions are often more diffuse. Add.
Prose men alone for private ends,
I thought, forsook their ancient friends. Matthew Prior.I will be still your friend in prose:
Esteem and friendship to express,
Will not require poetick dress. Jonathan Swift.My head and heart thus flowing through my quill,
Verse man and prose man, term me which you will. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
Prose
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the form consists of verse (writing in lines) based on rhythmic metre or rhyme. The word "prose" first appears in English in the 14th century. It is derived from the Old French prose, which in turn originates in the Latin expression prosa oratio (literally, straightforward or direct speech). Works of philosophy, history, economics, etc., journalism, and most fiction (an exception is the verse novel), are examples of works written in prose. Developments in twentieth century literature, including free verse, concrete poetry, and prose poetry, have led to the idea of poetry and prose as two ends on a spectrum rather than firmly distinct from each other. The British poet T. S. Eliot noted, whereas "the distinction between verse and prose is clear, the distinction between poetry and prose is obscure."
ChatGPT
prose
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure like in poetry or verse. It includes a variety of writing styles such as novels, short stories, essays, and other types of non-poetic writing. Furthermore, prose can be either fictional or non-fictional.
Webster Dictionary
Prosenoun
the ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition
Prosenoun
hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse
Prosenoun
a hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence
Proseadjective
pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition
Proseadjective
possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life
Proseverb
to write in prose
Proseverb
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
Proseverb
to write prose
Etymology: [F. prose, L. prosa, fr. prorsus, prosus, straight forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]
Wikidata
Prose
Prose is a form of language which applies ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure. While there are critical debates on the construction of prose, its simplicity and loosely defined structure has led to its adoption for the majority of spoken dialogue, factual discourse as well as topical and fictional writing. It is commonly used, for example, in literature, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, broadcasting, film, history, philosophy, law and many other forms of communication.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Prose
prōz, n. the direct, straightforward arrangement of words, free from poetical measures: ordinary spoken and written language: all writings not in verse.—adj. pertaining to prose: not poetical: plain: dull.—v.i. to write prose: to speak or write tediously.—v.t. to compose in prose.—ns. Prose′-man, Prō′ser, Prose′-writ′er, a writer of prose.—adv. Prō′sily, in a prosy manner: tediously.—ns. Prō′siness, the state or quality of being prosy; Prō′sing, speaking or writing in a dull or prosy way.—adj. Prō′sy, dull, tedious. [Fr.,—L. prosa—prorsus, straightforward—pro, forward, vertĕre, versum, to turn.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Prose is ranked #41426 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Prose surname appeared 525 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Prose.
94.1% or 494 total occurrences were White.
2.6% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.3% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Anagrams for prose »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of prose in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of prose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of prose in a Sentence
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Good prose is like a window-pane
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
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- نثرArabic
- prózaCzech
- prosaDanish
- ProsaGerman
- πεζογραφίαGreek
- prozoEsperanto
- prosaSpanish
- proosaEstonian
- proosaFinnish
- skaldskapur á óbundnum máli, óbundið mál, prosaFaroese
- proseFrench
- prosaGalician
- गद्यHindi
- prózaHungarian
- արձակArmenian
- prosaIndonesian
- prósaIcelandic
- prosaItalian
- 散文Japanese
- gancaranJavanese
- 散文, 산문Korean
- prosaLatin
- ഗദ്യംMalayalam
- prozaDutch
- prosaNorwegian
- prozaPolish
- prosaPortuguese
- prozăRomanian
- прозаRussian
- prózaSlovak
- prosaSwedish
- உரை நடைTamil
- గద్యముTelugu
- nesirTurkish
- نثرUrdu
- văn xuôiVietnamese
- 散文Chinese
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