Definitions for verses

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verses verse

Spelling: [vurs]

IPA: /vɜrs/

Verses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in verses (eerssv).

Definitions for verses

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 verses

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 verses

Much of what was said was in poetry, or in verses, or rhymes, of three lines each.

The Taliban proudly defended their assault, with verses from the Quran.

There can be no doubt that the verses give us young Shakespeare's feelings in the matter.

Oh, if a man only could live up to the verses he cuts out of magazines!

“As I wrote it, it had a very weird timing issue in the verses,” Bugg explains.

A lighted, electronic marquee placed just outside the building scrolls Bible verses every day.

Would she, for instance, but for that, have tried so much to like his verses?

Especially not when the display in question includes an angel falling from the sky in flames, surrounded by Biblical verses.

And she asked him to repeat some of the verses which he had at his tongue's end.

She drew round the verses a garland of flowers, and signed it with her pet name, Lorchen.