Dictionary Definition
verse
Noun
2 a piece of poetry [syn: rhyme]
3 a line of metrical text [syn: verse
line]
Verb
1 compose verses or put into verse; "He versified
the ancient saga" [syn: versify, poetize, poetise]
2 familiarize through thorough study or
experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
partly Old English vers; partly < Old French vers; both < Latin versus, (originally) row, furrow < vertere turn aroundPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)s
Noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
- Poetic form in general.
- The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several
lines, generally rhymed.
- Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
- In the context of "fandom": A specific fictional universe.
- June 6, 2006, Joey Airdo, "Earth-Shattering
X-Men: The Last Stand Doesn't Disappoint," The Popcorn Journal,
- "There must be newcomers to the X-Men 'verse, too, since the threequel opened to an unprecedented $120 million Memorial Day Weekend box office."
- June 6, 2006, Joey Airdo, "Earth-Shattering
X-Men: The Last Stand Doesn't Disappoint," The Popcorn Journal,
Related terms
Translations
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed
rhyme scheme
- Croatian: stih, vers
- Czech: verš
- Hebrew:
- Kurdish:
- Serbian: stih
Poetic form in general
- Croatian: stih, vers
- Czech: verš
- Hebrew:
- Serbian: stih
One of several similar units of a song,
consisting of several lines, generally rhymed
- Dutch: couplet
- Hebrew:
- Serbian: stih
Anagrams
French
Verb
- Form of First-person singular present subjunctive, verser#French|verser
- Form of Third-person singular present subjunctive, verser#French|verser
- Form of Second-person singular imperative, verser#French|verser
Spanish
Verb
verse- Reflexive infinitive of ver
Extensive Definition
Verse may refer to:
Verse is a section of a paragraph
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- Meter (poetry), describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse
- The term has also come to mean poetry in general
- Blank verse is a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme
- Free verse is a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but that is still recognizable as 'poetry'
- Chapters and verses of the Bible, a few short lines or sentences
- Ayah, each one of the 6236 verses found in the Qur'an
- Verse
(popular music), roughly corresponds with a poetic stanza
- Strophic form, the musical analogue of repeated stanzas in poetry or lyrics
- Verse-chorus form, a musical form common in popular music where the chorus is highlighted
- Thirty-two-bar form, "AABA", a musical form common in popular music
- Verse protocol, a networking protocol allowing real-time communication between computer graphics software
- Verse magazine, poetry magazine published in Seattle, Washington USA
- Verse (Patricia Barber album), a (2002) album by Patricia Barber
- Verse (band), A hardcore punk band from Providence, R.I
- Verse (rapper), a British hip hop artist.
Verses may also refer to:
- Verses (book), a book of poetry written by Edith Wharton
- Verses (Apallut) a (2001) album by Pamyua
verse in Czech: Verš
verse in German: Vers
verse in Spanish: Verso
verse in Esperanto: Verso
verse in French: Vers
verse in Macedonian: Стих
verse in Dutch: Gedicht
verse in Polish: Wiersz
verse in Portuguese: Verso
verse in Russian: Вирши
verse in Walloon: Arimea
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet,
Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet,
Spenserian stanza, acquaint, adage, advertise, advertise of,
advise, alba, ana, anacreontic, anacrusis, analects, antistrophe, aphorism, apothegm, apprise, article, avant-propos, axiom, back matter, balada, ballad, ballade, bass passage, book, bourdon, breakthrough, bridge, brief, bring word, bucolic, burden, byword, cadence, canso, canto, catchword, chanson, chapter, chorus, clause, clerihew, climb Parnassus,
coda, collected sayings,
column, communicate, compose poetry,
couplet, current saying,
development,
dictate, dictum, dirge, disclose, distich, dithyramb, division, eclogue, elegize, elegy, enlighten, envoi, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, exordium, exposition, expression, familiarize, fascicle, figure, folderol, folio, foreword, front matter,
frontispiece,
gathering, georgic, ghazel, give notice, give the
facts, give word, gnome,
golden saying, haiku,
harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, idyll, inform, innovation, installment, instruct, interlude, intermezzo, introduction, introductory
phrase, jingle, lay, leap, leave word, let know,
limerick, line, lisp in numbers, livraison, lyric, madrigal, make immortal verse,
maxim, measure, mention to, monody, monostich, moral, mot, motto, mount Pegasus, movement, musical phrase,
musical sentence, musical thought, narrative poem, notify, number, nursery rhyme, octastich, octave, octet, ode, oracle, ornament, ottava rima, overture, page, palinode, paragraph, part, passage, pastoral, pastoral elegy,
pastorela, pastourelle, pentastich, period, phrase, pithy saying, poem, poesy, poetize, poetry, postulate, preamble, precept, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, prescript, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, prothalamium, proverb, proverbial saying,
proverbs, quatrain, refrain, report, resolution, response, rhyme, rhyme royal, ritornello, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, saw, saying, section, send word, sentence, sententious
expression, septet,
serial, serve notice,
sestet, sestina, sextet, sheet, signature, sing, sing deathless songs,
sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, speak, stanza, statement, stave, stock saying, strain, strophe, sutra, syllable, tailpiece, tanka, teaching, tell, tenso, tenzone, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, triplet, tristich, troubadour poem,
tutti, tutti passage,
variation, verselet, versicle, versify, villanelle, virelay, volume, voluntary, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise
saying, witticism,
word, words of wisdom,
write poetry