Verse is writing arranged in lines which have rhythm and which often rhyme at the end.
...a slim volume of verse.
I have been moved to write a few lines of verse.
Synonyms: poetry, poems, lyrics, rhyme More Synonyms of verse
2. See also blank verse
3. countable noun
A verse is one of the parts into which a poem, a song, or a chapter of the Bible or the Koran is divided.
This verse describes three signs of spring.
The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.
Synonyms: stanza, section, stave, canto More Synonyms of verse
4. chapter and verse
More Synonyms of verse
verse in British English1
(vɜːs)
noun
1.
(not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem or song
2.
poetry as distinct from prose
3.
a.
a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line
b.
(as modifier)
verse line
4.
a specified type of metre or metrical structure
iambic verse
5.
one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided
6.
a metrical composition; poem
verb
7. a rare word for versify
Word origin
Old English vers, from Latin versus a furrow, literally: a turning (of the plough), from vertere to turn
verse in British English2
(vɜːs)
verb
(transitive) Australian and New Zealand
to oppose in a competition
Word origin
C21: from versus
verse in American English
(vɜrs)
noun
1.
a sequence of words arranged metrically in accordance with some rule or design; single line of poetry
2.
a.
metrical writing or speaking, esp. when light or trivial or merely metered and rhymed, but without much serious content or artistic merit
b.
a particular form of poetic composition
free verse, trochaic verse
3.
a.
a single metrical composition; poem
b.
a body of poetry, as of a specific writer or period
4.
a stanza or similar short subdivision of a metrical composition, sometimes specif. as distinguished from the chorus or refrain
5.
any of the single, usually numbered, short divisions of a chapter of the Bible, generally a sentence
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: versed or ˈversing
6. Rare
versify
Word origin
ME vers < OE fers & OFr vers, both < L versus, a turning, verse, line, row, pp. of vertere, to turn < IE *wert-, to turn < base *wer- > warp, worm, -wards
More idioms containing
verse
chapter and verse
Examples of 'verse' in a sentence
verse
She's well versed in complexity.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Certain kinds of stories should be avoided like a hymn with eight verses.
Christianity Today (2000)
You name a chapter and verse and the parrot would recite it.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
You need to know when a verse ends and how long a chorus should be.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She is well versed in foreign affairs.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We move on to the lyrics for verse three.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There were lots of verses like that one.
Max Arthur Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who WereThere (2006)
Yet his blank verse is lively and energetically handled.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Their parents could probably recite chapter and verse.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
That became the verse of this song.
The Sun (2013)
Verse lines are not numbered, nor are individual sonnets.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
I put my heart and soul into those verses and rhymes.
The Sun (2013)
A third requires you to learn a poem verse by verse.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
If you jump into this play head first and go for the romance of rhyme, the verse comes alive.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Currently I think that it will be a suite of macabre short stories in verse.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Should he write verse in Latin or in English?
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
A short piece of verse.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
verse
British English: verse NOUN
Verse is writing arranged in lines which have rhythm and which often rhyme at the end.
I have been moved to write a few lines of verse.
American English: verse
Brazilian Portuguese: verso
Chinese: 诗
European Spanish: verso
French: vers
German: Poesie
Italian: verso
Japanese: 韻文
Korean: 운문
European Portuguese: verso
Latin American Spanish: verso
All related terms of 'verse'
blank verse
Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme . In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables .
comic verse
amusing verse
free verse
unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern
light verse
poetry which has a humorous or non-serious subject and tone
heroic verse
a type of verse suitable for epic or heroic subjects, such as the classical hexameter , the French Alexandrine , or the English iambic pentameter
Leonine verse
connected with one of the popes called Leo
nonsense verse
verse in which the sense is nonexistent or absurd , such as that of Edward Lear
chapter and verse
If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are emphasizing that they tell you every detail about it.
Chinese translation of 'verse'
verse
(vəːs)
n
(u) (= poetry) 诗(詩) (shī)
(c)[of poem, song]诗(詩)节(節) (shījié)
(c) (in bible) 节(節) (jié)
to write in verse用韵(韻)文写(寫) (yòng yùnwén xiě)
Seev
1 (noun)
Definition
poetry as distinct from prose
a slim volume of verse
Synonyms
poetry
the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
poems
lyrics
rhyme
balladry
poesy (archaic)
versification
2 (noun)
Definition
a division of a poem or song
This verse describes the three signs of spring.
Synonyms
stanza
section
a geological section of a rock
stave
canto
part
He works in a different part of the company.
3 (noun)
Definition
a poem
He wrote a verse about her pride and sense of accomplishment.
Synonyms
poem
a tender autobiographical poem set to music
rhyme
He has taught her a little rhyme.
ode
lyric
composition
ballad
sonnet
Additional synonyms
in the sense of part
He works in a different part of the company.
Synonyms
branch,
department,
division,
office,
section,
wing,
subdivision,
subsection
in the sense of rhyme
Definition
a piece of poetry with corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines
He has taught her a little rhyme.
Synonyms
poem,
song,
verse,
ode,
ditty,
piece of poetry,
metrical composition
in the sense of section
Definition
a part cut off or separated from the main body of something