Verse Definition

vûrs
versed, verses, versing
noun
verses
A sequence of words arranged metrically in accordance with some rule or design; single line of poetry.
Webster's New World
A single metrical composition; poem.
Webster's New World
A poem.
American Heritage
Metrical writing or speaking, esp. when light or trivial or merely metered and rhymed, but without much serious content or artistic merit.
Webster's New World
A body of poetry, as of a specific writer or period.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
versed, verses, versing
To versify or engage in versifying.
American Heritage
To familiarize by study or experience.
He versed himself in philosophy.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
To play against (an opponent) in a competition.
American Heritage
To tell in verse, or poetry.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
suffix

Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element. [from 20th c.]

Wiktionary

Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc. [from 20th c.]

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Other Word Forms of Verse

Noun

Singular:
verse
Plural:
verses

Origin of Verse

  • Middle English vers from Old English fers and from Old French vers both from Latin versus from past participle of vertere to turn wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Partly from Old English vers; partly, from Old French vers; both, from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow"), from vertō (“to turn around").

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably back-formation from versus taken as verses in such phrases as Boston versus New York

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb *verses.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin versāre versatile

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Shortening of universe.

    From Wiktionary

  • From universe.

    From Wiktionary

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