Definitions for verse

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verse verse

Spelling: [vurs]

IPA: /vɜrs/

Verse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in verse (eersv).

Definitions for verse

noun

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:
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:
7. a particular type of metrical composition:
8. the collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.:
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.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or written in verse:

verb (used with object)

1. to express in verse.

verb (used without object)

1. versify.

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

Examples for verse

It was an express order for two hundred francs, in payment of a bit of verse.

And then Rico sang the verse and was pleased and said, "Sing some more."

There was not a single Bible verse quoted to me, for or against MMA, that I believe applies to this situation.

Then Rico fiddled and sung the verse with her, and said again, "Some more."

It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.

No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.

Give me some more of the syrup, and then come and repeat the verse that I taught you the other day.

She had completed the verse with the hint of a sneer in her tones.

I have seen the ugliest thoughts expressed, sometimes in verse, while using public restrooms.

I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.