proseprose /prəʊz $ proʊz/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINprose
ExamplesOrigin:
1200-1300 Old French, Latin prosa, from prorsus, prosus ‘straight, direct’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- Brown's prose is simple and direct.
- An aggressive self-publicist, her inflamed prose brought her much notoriety.
- In other words, there is no one model of prose style which is applicable to all texts.
- Joe was the stylist, throwing in literary references and lingering over their prose until it had a lilt.
- Kingsolver's fecund prose is always reader-friendly, though we are directed to her messages with too heavy a hand.
- Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers.
- Straus could have spent his life clipping coupons, safari hunting, or writing the hyperventilating prose that was his second love.
- The prose of this chapter measures the adequacy of verbal accounts of catastrophe in the age of photographic reproduction.
- There is not a great deal of readable prose in the field.
WORD SETS► Literature
Collocationsacrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► purple
Phrases· William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.· Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.
NOUN► style· Or has Mrs Cooper's prose style got to her?· In other words, there is no one model of prose style which is applicable to all texts.· In the following chapter, we shall use relatively short passages for exemplifying the analysis of prose style.· And not least among his endowments is the command of a prose style which makes what he writes a pleasure to read.
VERB► write· After all, women can't write good classical prose.· Straus could have spent his life clipping coupons, safari hunting, or writing the hyperventilating prose that was his second love.· It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose, hugely readable.· I write reams of dry prose with appropriately technical language and what my colleagues consider scientific consequence.· He wrote his prose poems originally in Arabic and they have now been translated into more than 20 other languages.· She writes in minimalist prose, sometimes in staccato rhythms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► deathless prose/verse/lines etc► purple prose/passage
written language in its usual form, as opposed to poetry- It won't be deathless prose, but it should be a grammatical and effective piece of writing.
- In his maturity what he remembered of his style of speaking were purple passages and a rather caustic irony.
- Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.
- William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.