English-Dutch translations for prose

• ondicht
• proza
  Een personage van Molière zei dat hij dacht dat hij in dichtvorm had gesproken, terwijl hij in werkelijkheid in proza had gesproken zonder het zelf te weten. There is a Molière character who said that he thought he had been speaking in verse, but had in fact been speaking in prose without realising.

Definition of prose

• Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry
• Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse
• A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass
• To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way

Examples

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

Related words

• prosaic
• prosody