Толковый словарь английского языка - prose
Prose
prose
I. noun see: pro- Date: 14th century 1. the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing, a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech, a prosaic style, quality, or condition, II. adjective Date: 14th century of, relating to, or written in ~, prosaic , III. intransitive verb (~d; prosing) Date: 1642 to write ~, to write or speak in a prosaic manner
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n. & v. --n. 1 the ordinary form of the written or spoken language (opp. POETRY, VERSE) (Milton's prose works). 2 a passage of prose, esp. for translation into a foreign language. 3 a tedious speech or conversation. 4 a plain matter-of-fact quality (the prose of existence). 5 Eccl. = SEQUENCE 8. --v. 1 intr. (usu. foll. by about, away, etc.) talk tediously (was prosing away about his dog). 2 tr. turn (a poem etc.) into prose. Phrases and idioms prose idyll a short description in prose of a picturesque, esp. rustic, incident, character, etc. prose poem (or poetry) a piece of imaginative poetic writing in prose. Derivatives proser n. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L prosa (oratio) straightforward (discourse), fem. of prosus, earlier prorsus direct ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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