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Definitions for Verse

[1] (not in technical use) a stanza.
[2] a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem.
[3] a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse.
[4] a poem, or piece of poetry.
[5] metrical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form.
[6] metrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality: a writer of verse, not poetry.
[7] a particular type of metrical composition: elegiac verse.
[8] the collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.: Miltonian verse; American verse.
[9] one of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible.
[10] Music . that part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus. a part of a song designed to be sung by a solo voice.
[11] Rare . a line of prose, especially a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.
[12] Rare . a subdivision in any literary work.
[13] of, relating to, or written in verse: a verse play.
[14] versify.
[15] to express in verse.
[16] (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem
[17] poetry as distinct from prose
[18] a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line (as modifier ) verse line
[19] a specified type of metre or metrical structure iambic verse
[20] one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided
[21] a metrical composition; poem
[22] a rare word for versify

Words related to Verse

poem, rhyme, poetry, stanza, lyric, jingle, epic, ballad, sonnet, ode, song, poesy, lay, rune

Words nearby Verse

versailles, palace of, versailles, treaty of, versal, versant, versatile, verse, versed, versed sine, verset, versicle, versicolor

Origin of Verse

before 900; Middle English vers(e ), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, Old English fers < Latin versus a row, line (of poetry), literally, a turning, equivalent to vert(ere ) to turn (past participle versus ) + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s; akin to -ward, worth2

Words that may be confused with Verse

verses, versus

Other words from Verse

un·der·verse , noun

Word origin for Verse

Old English vers, from Latin versus a furrow, literally: a turning (of the plough), from vertere to turn

Synonyms for Verse

ballad, epic, jingle, lyric, poem, poetry, rhyme, sonnet, stanza, lay, ode, poesy, rune, song