Prose

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

   “Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.”

2. isim Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

   “...the vehicle is plodding prose, but the effect is none the less poignant. And in regard to this I may say that in a hundred places in Trollope the extremity of pathos is reached by the homeliest means.”

3. isim A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.

   “Proses are parts of the Office of the Mass which are sung just before the Gospel, upon great Festivals. The French also call those Rhythmical Hymns Proses, which are sung in their Offices in the Church of Rome, in which Rhime only, and not Quantity of Syllables, is observed.”

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

   “Pray, do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak; What is your purpose?”

5. özel isim A surname from German.