Definition of: prose

(prōz) noun
1. Speech or writing without metrical structure: opposed to verse or poetry.
2. Common place or tedious discourse.
3. Eccl. A hymn of irregular meter sometimes sung in the eucharistic liturgy after the gradual; a sequence.
4. A proser.
—adjective Pertaining to prose; not poetic; hence, tedious.
—v.t. & v.i. prosed, pros·ing To write or speak in prose. [<OF <L prosa (oratio) straightforward (discourse) <prorsus <pro- forward + versus, pp. of vertere turn]