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
Philip proses about the burden he takes up and the cares he endures.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
He started by doing one prose and one "con" a week, instead of two proses and two "cons" like the rest of the form.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
I never yawn when he proses, and his daughter does.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Free interchange of poetries and proses, of heroic sentiments and opinions, between the Unique of Sages and the Paragon of Crown-Princes; how charming to both!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle
