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5-letter words (6 found)

PORES,POSER,PROSE,REPOS,ROPES,SPORE,

4-letter words (15 found)

EPOS,EROS,OPES,ORES,PESO,PORE,POSE,PROS,REOS,REPO,REPS,ROES,ROPE,ROSE,SORE,

3-letter words (18 found)

ERS,OES,OPE,OPS,ORE,ORS,OSE,PER,PES,POS,PRE,PRO,REO,REP,RES,ROE,SER,SOP,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ES,OE,OP,OR,OS,PE,PO,RE,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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All 5 letters words made out of prose

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Definitions and meaning of prose

prose

Etymology

From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (straightforward) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊz/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊz/
  • Rhymes: -əʊz
  • Homophone: pros

Noun

prose (usually uncountable, plural proses)

  1. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
    Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
  2. Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  3. (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.

Antonyms

  • poetry, verse

Derived terms

  • beige prose
  • prose poem
  • prosewise
  • purple prose

Related terms

  • prosaic
  • prosody

Translations

Verb

prose (third-person singular simple present proses, present participle prosing, simple past and past participle prosed)

  1. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

References

  • “prose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • OPers., Peros, Perso-, S'pore, Soper, Spero, opers, pores, poser, preso, reops, repos, ropes, soper, spore

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈprosɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔsɛ

Etymology 1

Noun

prose

  1. locative singular of proso

Etymology 2

Verb

prose

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of prosit
Related terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʁoz/
  • Homophone: proses

Noun

prose f (plural proses)

  1. prose

Derived terms

  • faire de la prose sans le savoir
  • prosateur
  • proser

Verb

prose

  1. inflection of proser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “prose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • perso, pores, poser, repos

Italian

Noun

prose f

  1. plural of prosa

Anagrams

  • perso, porse, preso, respo, spero, sperò, spore

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *porsę.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔsɛ/, [ˈprɔsə]

Noun

prose n animal (genitive singular proseśa, nominative dual proseśi, nominative plural proseta)

  1. piglet

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “prose”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “prose”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Source: wiktionary.org