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

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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

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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.]

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Verse

Singular:

verse

Plural:

verses

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