Verse

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry.
  • n. A division of a metrical composition, such as a stanza of a poem or hymn.
  • n. A poem.
  • n. Metrical or rhymed composition as distinct from prose; poetry.
  • n. The art or work of a poet.
  • n. A group of poems: read a book of satirical verse.
  • n. Metrical writing that lacks depth or artistic merit.
  • n. A particular type of metrical composition, such as blank verse or free verse.
  • n. One of the numbered subdivisions of a chapter in the Bible.
  • v. To versify or engage in versifying.
  • v. To familiarize by study or experience: He versed himself in philosophy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
  • n. Poetic form in general.
  • n. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
  • n. A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
  • v. To compose verses.
  • v. To educate about, to teach about.
  • v. To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
  • n. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
  • n. A short division of any composition.
  • n. A stanza; a stave.
  • n. One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
  • n. A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
  • n. A piece of poetry.
  • v. To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • verb-intransitive. To make verses; to versify.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To turn; revolve, as in meditation.
  • n. In prosody: A succession of feet (colon or period) written or printed in one line; a line: as, a poem of three hundred verses; hence, a type of metrical composition, as represented by a metrical line; a meter. A verse may be catalectic, dimeter, trimeter, iambic, dactylic, rimed, unrimed, alliterative, etc.
  • n. A type of metrical composition, represented by a group of lines; a kind of stanza: as, Spencerian verse; hence, a stanza: as, the first verse of a (rimed) hymn.
  • n. A specimen of metrical composition; a piece of poetry; a poem.
  • n. Metrical composition in general; versification; hence, poetical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form: opposed to prose.
  • n. A succession of words written in one line; hence, a sentence, or part of a sentence, written, or fitted to be written, as one line; a Stich or stichos.
  • n. Henceā€” In liturgies, a sentence, or part of a sentence, usually from the Scriptures, especially from the Book of Psalms, said alternately by an officiant or leader and the choir or people: specifically, the sentence, clause, or phrase said by the officiant or leader, as distinguished from the response of the choir or congregation; a versicle.
  • n. In church music, a passage or movement for a single voice or for soloists, as contrasted with chorus; also, a soloist who sings such a passage
  • n. A short division of a chapter in any book of Scripture, usually forming one sentence, or part of a long sentence or period.
  • n. A similar division in any book.
  • To relate or express in verse; turn into verse or rime.
  • To make verses.
  • In heraldry, reversed or turned in a direction unusual to the bearing in question. Also renverse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. compose verses or put into verse
  • n. a piece of poetry
  • n. literature in metrical form
  • v. familiarize through thorough study or experience
  • n. a line of metrical text
  • Verb Form
    versed    verses    versing   
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    foot   
    Form
    versed    versing   
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    versification    poetry    stanza    stave    versify   
    Rhyme
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    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    coerce    converse    curse    disburse    disperse   
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    poem    song    phrase    speech    language    prose    letter    tale    composition    text