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Crossword-Solution: PROSE 5 letters, 219 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Prose n. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing;
language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished
from verse, or metrical composition.
Prose n. Hence, language which evinces little imagination or
animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
Prose n. A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the
Mass. See Sequence.
Prose a. Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as,
prose composition.
Prose a. Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain;
dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
Prose v. t. To write in prose.
Prose v. t. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
Prose v. i. To write prose.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
PROSE anagram PORES, POSER, PRESO, REPOS, ROPES, SPERO, SPORE

We have 219 clues for the answer “PROSE”

Clue Answers
"Always be a poet, even in ___": Baudelaire 1 answer
"Purple" output from authors 1 answer
"Purple" stuff 1 answer
"Purple" stuff in books 1 answer
"Purple" writing 1 answer
"Words in their best order."—Coleridge. 1 answer
All speech and most writing. 1 answer
An essayist's work is in it 1 answer
Bacon's forte 1 answer
Best seller, usually 1 answer
Bestseller usually 1 answer
Book fare 1 answer
Commonplace writing 1 answer
Conversational literature 1 answer
Counterpart of poetry 1 answer
Dull discourse 1 answer
Essay makeup 1 answer
Essay text 1 answer
Essay writing, e.g. 1 answer
Essay's language 1 answer
Essayist's concern. 1 answer
Essayist's output 1 answer
Essayist's specialty. 1 answer
Essayist's writing 1 answer
Everday writing 1 answer
Everyday speech 1 answer
Everyday text 1 answer
Everyday writing 1 answer
Faulkner's forte. 1 answer
Fiction, biography, etc. 1 answer
Fiction, e.g. 1 answer
Form of ordinary language 1 answer
Ordinary written language, not poetry 1 answer
Genre of novels and essays 1 answer
Genus of literature. 1 answer
Henry James's forte 1 answer
It couldn't be verse 1 answer
It isn't poetry 1 answer
It may be purple 1 answer
It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway 1 answer
It's no verse 1 answer
It's not good if it's purple 1 answer
It's not poetry 1 answer
It's polished at one's desk 1 answer
It's purple if it's overheated 1 answer
It's unmetered 1 answer
Joyce's forte 1 answer
Language of a novel 1 answer
Literary medium 1 answer
Mailer's output 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROSE (5)

Ausonius,[9] the friend of the Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The same history applies in large measure to the Fables of Avian, which were done into prose, transferred back into Latin verse, and sent forth through Europe from England.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992
One final note on talk mode style: neophytes, when in talk mode, often seem to think they must produce letter-perfect prose because they are typing rather than speaking.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The following is a brave attempt at a solution, but it failed to liquify: When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the poetry or prose they must put a semicolon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with PROSE (3)

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
L. M. Montgomery
If I read inspirational words, they better have some pain to back them up. My strength for moving forward has never been sparked by flowery prose calling me and Angel. Tell me how you swallowed Hell, and lived to tell the tale... the 'pain' and your transformation - will inspire me to soar. And I promise you, I will listen.
Alfa H Abandoned Breaths
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
John Fowles The Magus
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 315 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).