prose

Etymology
From, from , from from the term.

The term, a colloquial form of , the feminine form , from , from + , form of. Compare.

Noun

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

Antonyms

 * poetry, verse

Related terms

 * prosaic
 * prosody

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَثْر
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: nəsr
 * Basque: prosa
 * Belarusian: про́за
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: prozo
 * Estonian: proosa
 * Faroese: óbundið mál, prosa, skaldskapur á óbundnum máli
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პროზა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: prósa
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: gancaran
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: проза
 * Khmer: ពាក្យរាយ, ពាក្យលាត
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: проза
 * Lao: ຮ້ອຽແກ້ວ
 * Latin: prōsa
 * Latvian: proza
 * Lithuanian: proza
 * Macedonian: проза
 * Malay: prosa
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: үргэлжилсэн үгийн зохиол
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prosa
 * Old English: spell
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: про́за
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: próza
 * Slovene: proza
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: nathari
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: наср
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: proza
 * Ukrainian: про́за
 * Urdu: نثر
 * Uyghur: نەسر, پروزا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: פּראָזע

Verb

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

Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) piglet