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ALL meanings of verse

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  • noun verse poetry, rhyme 1
  • noun verse poem 1
  • noun verse stanza 1
  • noun verse division of Bible text 1
  • noun verse (not in technical use) a stanza. 1
  • noun verse a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. 1
  • noun verse a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse. 1
  • noun verse a poem, or piece of poetry. 1
  • noun verse metrical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form. 1
  • noun verse metrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality: a writer of verse, not poetry. 1
  • noun verse a particular type of metrical composition: elegiac verse. 1
  • noun verse the collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.: Miltonian verse; American verse. 1
  • noun verse one of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible. 1
  • noun verse Music. that part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus. a part of a song designed to be sung by a solo voice. 1
  • noun verse Rare. a line of prose, especially a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line. 1
  • noun verse Rare. a subdivision in any literary work. 1
  • adjective verse of, relating to, or written in verse: a verse play. 1
  • abbreviation VERSE versify. 1
  • verb with object verse to express in verse. 1
  • uncountable noun verse Verse is writing arranged in lines which have rhythm and which often rhyme at the end. 0
  • countable noun verse A verse is one of the parts into which a poem, a song, or a chapter of the Bible or the Koran is divided. 0
  • noun verse (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem 0
  • noun verse poetry as distinct from prose 0
  • noun verse a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line 0
  • noun verse (as modifier) 0
  • noun verse a specified type of metre or metrical structure 0
  • noun verse one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided 0
  • noun verse a metrical composition; poem 0
  • noun verse a sequence of words arranged metrically in accordance with some rule or design; single line of poetry 0
  • noun verse metrical writing or speaking, esp. when light or trivial or merely metered and rhymed, but without much serious content or artistic merit 0
  • noun verse a particular form of poetic composition 0
  • noun verse a single metrical composition; poem 0
  • noun verse a body of poetry, as of a specific writer or period 0
  • noun verse a stanza or similar short subdivision of a metrical composition, sometimes specif. as distinguished from the chorus or refrain 0
  • noun verse any of the single, usually numbered, short divisions of a chapter of the Bible, generally a sentence 0
  • abbreviation VERSE versify 0
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