verse

noun

/vɜːs/

/vɜːrs/

Idioms

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[uncountable] writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm or pattern of rhyme synonym poetry
- in verse Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose.
see also blank verse, free verse
Wordfinder
- couplet
- image
- lyric
- poetry
- recite
- refrain
- rhyme
- scansion
- stanza
- verse
Topics Literature and writingc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- humorous
- light
- nonsense
- …
verb + verse
- compose
- write
- recite
- …
verse + noun
- form
- drama
preposition
- in verse
See full entry
[countable] a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song
- a hymn with six verses
Topics Musicc1
verses
[plural] (old-fashioned) poetry
- a book of comic verses
[countable] any one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible
- She always read a few verses from the Bible before going to bed.
Topics Religion and festivalsc2

Word OriginOld English fers, from Latin versus ‘a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus.

Idioms

chapter and verse

the exact details of something, especially the exact place where particular information may be found
- I can't give chapter and verse, but that's the rough outline of our legal position.

单词	verse
释义	verse noun /vɜːs/ /vɜːrs/ Idioms jump to other results [uncountable] writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm or pattern of rhyme synonym poetry in verse Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose. see also blank verse, free verse Wordfinder couplet image lyric poetry recite refrain rhyme scansion stanza verse Topics Literature and writingc1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective humorous light nonsense … verb + verse compose write recite … verse + noun form drama preposition in verse See full entry [countable] a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song a hymn with six verses Topics Musicc1 verses [plural] (old-fashioned) poetry a book of comic verses [countable] any one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible She always read a few verses from the Bible before going to bed. Topics Religion and festivalsc2 Word OriginOld English fers, from Latin versus ‘a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus. Idioms chapter and verse the exact details of something, especially the exact place where particular information may be found I can't give chapter and verse, but that's the rough outline of our legal position.
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