Definition of verses Verses
/vɚˈsʌz/ - [versuz] -
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What does verses mean?
Wiktionary 
- verses (Noun)
Plural of verse.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: verses |
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| verse - a line of metrical text | ||
| verse line | ||
| line acting in conformity; "in line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line" | ||
| poem, verse form a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines | ||
| iambic a verse line consisting of iambs | ||
| adonic, adonic line a verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; supposedly used in laments by Adonis | ||
| tetrameter a verse line having four metrical feet | ||
| pentameter a verse line having five metrical feet | ||
| hexameter a verse line having six metrical feet | ||
| octameter a verse line having eight metrical feet | ||
| octosyllable a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines | ||
| verse - a piece of poetry | ||
| rhyme | ||
| poem, verse form a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines | ||
| clerihew a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew" | ||
| doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" | ||
| verse - literature in metrical form | ||
| poetry, poesy | ||
| literary genre, writing style, genre a style of expressing yourself in writing | ||
| epos a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme | ||
| epic poetry, heroic poetry poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero | ||
Verb |
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| verse - compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga" | ||
| versify, poetize, poetise | ||
| indite, pen, compose, write put together out of existing material; "compile a list" | ||
| poesy, poetry, verse literature in metrical form | ||
| metrify compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely" | ||
| spondaise, spondaize make spondaic; "spondaize verses" | ||
| elegise, elegize compose an elegy | ||
| sonnet compose a sonnet | ||
| verse - familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology" | ||
| familiarise, familiarize, acquaint make familiar or conversant with; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" | ||
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Wiktionary
- verse (Noun)
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. - verse (Noun)
Poetic form in general. - verse (Noun)
One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. - verse (Noun)
A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible. - verse (Verb)
To compose verses. - verse (Verb)
To educate about, to teach about. - verse (Verb)
To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- verse (n.)
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules. - verse (n.)
Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. - verse (n.)
A short division of any composition. - verse (n.)
A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses. - verse (n.)
One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments. - verse (n.)
A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. - verse (n.)
A piece of poetry. - verse (v. t.)
To tell in verse, or poetry. - verse (v. i.)
To make verses; to versify.
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verse
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
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poetry
In poetry a verse is used for a single line in a metrical composition, e.g. poetry.
In common use it also means a unit of a song that consists of several lines, if there are several similar units in a song. In poems of Ancient Greece these units are called strophe.
