A Topical Dictionary: Search for verse

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English

Etymology

partly Old English vers; partly < Old French vers; both < Latin versus, (originally) row, furrow < vertere turn around

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at en-us-verse.ogg
: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɜː(r)s|-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 A specific fictional universe.
* June 6, 2006, Joey Airdo, "1," 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."

Related terms

Translations

Croatian: {{t-|hr|stih|m}}, {{t-|hr|vers|m}}
Czech: {{t-|cs|verš|m}}
Hebrew:

Kurdish:
Serbian: {{t-|sr|stih|m}}

Croatian: {{t-|hr|stih|m}}, {{t-|hr|vers|m}}
Czech: {{t-|cs|verš|m}}

Hebrew:
Serbian: {{t-|sr|stih|m}}

Dutch: {{t-|nl|couplet|n}}
Hebrew:

Serbian: {{t-|sr|stih|m}}

Anagrams

serve

Category:1000 English basic words

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French

Verb

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{{form of|third-person|Third-person singular present indicative|verser#French|verser|lang=French}}
{{form of|First-person singular present subjunctive|verser#French|verser|lang=French}}
{{form of|third-person|Third-person singular present subjunctive|verser#French|verser|lang=French}}
{{form of|Second-person singular imperative|verser#French|verser|lang=French}}

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Spanish

Verb

verse

Reflexive infinitive of ver

Category:Spanish verbs

ar:verse el:verse fa:verse fr:verse hy:verse io:verse hu:verse pl:verse pt:verse ru:verse simple:verse fi:verse sv:verse ta:verse te:verse vi:verse tr:verse zh:verse

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Verse \Verse\, v. i.
To make verses; to versify. [Obs.]
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It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. --Sir
P. Sidney.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Verse \Verse\ (v[~e]rs), n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a
line in writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere,
versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become:
cf. F. vers. See Worth to become, and cf. Advertise,
Averse, Controversy, Convert, Divers, Invert,
Obverse, Prose, Suzerain, Vortex.]
1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet
(see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
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Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter,
pentameter, tetrameter, etc., according to the
number of feet in each. A verse of twelve syllables is
called an Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a
stanza or strophe.
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2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed
in metrical form; versification; poetry.
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Such prompt eloquence
Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.
--Milton.
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Virtue was taught in verse. --Prior.
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Verse embalms virtue. --Donne.
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3. A short division of any composition. Specifically:
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(a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
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Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is
objectionable, because not always distinguishable from
the stricter use in the sense of a line.
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(b) (Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters
in the Old and New Testaments.
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Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into
verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was
divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a
French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first
time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551.
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(c) (Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a
single voice to each part.
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4. A piece of poetry. "This verse be thine." --Pope.
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Blank verse, poetry in which the lines do not end in
rhymes.

Heroic verse. See under Heroic.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Verse \Verse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Versed (v[~e]rst); p. pr. &
vb. n. Versing.]
To tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.]
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Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. --Shak.
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WordNet verse
n 1: literature in metrical form [syn: poetry, poesy]
2: a piece of poetry [syn: rhyme]
3: a line of metrical text [syn: verse line]
v 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"

Moby Dictionary
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