prose
noun
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
proses
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pluralof prose.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof prose (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
prosenounthe ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
Example Sentences
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It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a School-board Lady, but, alas, she is next the Warden of St. Jude's, not next the enthusiastic Clergyman, who proses about a Club for Milliners.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various
I held the little beast's head all over the Latin proses for Monday.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
The teacher before his class is the sacred bard at the feast; he is an exhaustless spring of joy, a tireless playfellow, a preacher who never proses, a schoolmaster who never scolds.
From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock
The “Laetabundus” is in rhymed stanzas; in this it differs from most early proses.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
