Verse

Definitions: Verse

Verse

Noun

1. Literature in metrical form.

2. A piece of poetry.

3. A line of metrical text.

Verb

1. Compose verses; put into verse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "verse" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Synonyms: Verse

Evidence

Have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate, verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book.

Part

Noun: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.

Poetry

Verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation; (voice); dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus.

Elegiacs; Adjective: elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.

Canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe.

Doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics; macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes.

Prose

Rhymeless, unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.

Truth

Exactly; Adjective: ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking.

Crosswords: Verse

French (pours), German (Vers), Spanish (flinch, get together, meet, rendezvous, show, turn over).

There is no difference between the magic rhythms of Bill Shakespeare's immortal verse, and the magic rhythms of Bill Robinson's immortal feet. (The Band Wagon; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

One more verse of our little ditty and I would have been looking for a gas can. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

My text for today comes from Psalm 99, Verse 9: Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill. (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain; writing credit: Ivor Monger; Christopher Monger)

1st Verse ("Human Nature"; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Yo Dre, drop the verse ("No Diggity"; performing artist: Blackstreet)

This verse I'm talkin bout a guy that's actin just like a girl ("Get Away"; performing artist: Jade)

The second verse is dedicated to the men ("Doo Wop (That Thing)"; performing artist: Lauryn Hill)

R.Kelly Verse Two ("Pu**y"; performing artist: R. Kelly)

For Bitter or for Verse (1919)

A Gale of Verse (1917)

Six Centuries of Verse (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Book of Highland Verse: An (English) Anthology Consisting of (A) Translations from Gaelic, (B) English Verse Relating to the Highlands (reference)

• The sorcerer with deadly nightshade eyes ; followed by, The foundling at the bottom of the well : poems in verse and prose (reference)

• O Holy Cow!: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto (reference)

• The Cranky Blue Crab: A Tale in Verse (reference)

• Alan Crawley and contemporary verse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Verse (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• American History in Verse Vol 02 (reference)

• Fables and Legends: American History in Verse, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Uni Verse of Song: Spanish (reference)

• Uni Verse of Song-French (reference)

• Verse (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Verse 303 Monitor Microphone Beige (reference)

• WHTBOX VERSE 303 DESK MIC-120PK (reference)

• WHTBOX VERSE 504 DESK MIC-50PK (reference)

• Quick Verse 5.0 (reference)

• Quick Verse New Bible Reference Collection (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Mat. chap. 13th verse 26.Credit: Library of Congress.

Three French song titles, with words to first verse of each.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Sylvie and Bruno waited patiently till the end of the first verse.

He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse. "Now I lay me down to sleep, "Try to count electric sheep, "Sweet dream wishes you can keep, "How I hate the night."

It is worthy of remark, that the age of periphrases in verse was the age of crudities in prose.

The old restless moodiness had again filled his breast as it had done on the night of the party but had not found an outlet in verse.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Minorities

Turkey

In his public remarks, he read a Koranic verse alluding to those "whose killing is necessary." The Baha'i have pressed charges against the imam. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "verse": Adonic verse ♦ Alcaic verse ♦ Asynartete verse ♦ blank verse ♦ chapter and verse ♦ doggerel verse ♦ elegiac verse ♦ free verse ♦ garland of verse ♦ give chapter and verse ♦ heroic verse ♦ Homeric verse ♦ Hypermetrical verse ♦ in verse ♦ leonine verse ♦ line of verse ♦ lyric verse ♦ lyrical verse ♦ make verse ♦ neck verse ♦ nonsense verse ♦ not in verse ♦ quote chapter and verse ♦ Saturnian verse ♦ verse form ♦ verse line ♦ verse writer. Additional references.

Beginning with "verse": verse-and-refrain, verse-autobiography, verse-contests, verse-epistle, verse-form, verse-line, verse-lines, verse-man, verse-movement, verse-scene, verse-sentence, verse-speaker, verse-speakers, verse-speaking, verse-specific, verse-styles, verse-tragedy, verse-translator, verse-tribute, verse-writing.

Ending with "verse": blank-verse, free-verse, part-verse, quasi-blank-verse, single-verse.

Afrikaan

vers. (various references)

Albanian

vjershë (canto, poem), vargje, varg (cavalcade, chain, column, concatenation, course, file, in file, line, network, nexus, number, range, rank, ridge, row, series, string, succession, train, variety), strofë (quatrain, stanza, strophe, tetrastich), shkruaj vjersha (berhyme, berime, poetize), poezi (lay, minstrelsy, poetry, rhyme). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقطع شعري (stanza, stave), ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize), ‏قصيدة (poem, song), ‏آية (prodigy), ‏شعر قريض, ‏شعر (feel, felt, furriness, hair, notify, poetry, rhyme, sense, song, warn), ‏بيت شعر (rhyme). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строфа (stanza, stave, strophe), стихотворна форма, стихотворен (metric, metrical, numerous), стих (line), солова част от черковен химн, обучавам (discipline, drill, form, ground, instruct, lesson, pace, school, take, teach, train, tutor), написан в стихове, запознавам подробно, поезия (minstrelsy, parnassus, poesy, poetry, song, strain), пиша стихове (poeticize, rhyme), изразявам в стихотворна форма (versify). (various references)

Chinese 

韻文 , 詩 (poem, poetry), 诗歌 (chorale, Poetry). (various references)

Czech

veršovat (rhyme, versify), verš (line, rhyme), strofa (stanza, stave), sloka (staff, strophe), poezie (poetry). (various references)

Dutch

strofe, couplet. (various references)

Esperanto

verso, strofo. (various references)

Faeroese

ørindisregla, ørindi. (various references)

Farsi 

نظم (Array, Collocation, Discipline, Meter, Order, Poem, Poetry, Rank, Rhyme, System, Train), شعرگفتن (Rhyme), شعر (Measure, Poem, Poesy, Poetry, Rhyme, Rime, Song), بنظم وردن . (various references)

Finnish

säe (line). (various references)

French

vers, strophe. (various references)

German

Vers (line), Strophe (stanza). (various references)

Greek 

έμμετροσ λόγοσ, στίχοσ (line, stave). (various references)

Hebrew 

שיר�" (music, poetics, poetry, singing, song), פסוק (phrase, sentence), כתוב (inscribed, passage, text, written). (various references)

Hungarian

verssor. (various references)

Indonesian

sajak (rhyme), baris (queue, ranks, slide rule), bait (abode, distich, stanza), ayat (article, paragraph). (various references)

Italian

verso (about, approximately, at, by, call, cry, direction, even folio, even leaf, even page, grimace, left-hand page, line, meter, metre, near, poetry, reverse, second page, to, toward, towards, unto, verso), versetto, verseggiare (versify), poesia (lyric, piece of poetry, poem, poetry, rhyme, rime). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

韻文 (poetry), 詩句 , 行 (line, row), ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality), 律文 (legal provisions), 句 (17-syllable poem, clause, expression, line, paragraph, passage, phrase, sentence, stanze). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎょう (congeal, desire, freeze, Imperial reign, line, luck, row, seek), バース (berth, birth), しく (municipal district, streets, to be equal to, to excel, to lay out, to spread out), い�"ぶ�" (lettering of an engraving, poetry), りつぶ�" (legal provisions), く (17-syllable poem, bend over, clause, district, expression, line, nine, paragraph, passage, phrase, section, sentence, stanze, ward). (various references)

Korean 

운문. (various references)

Manx

ring (subdivision), rane (stanza, track). (various references)

Pig Latin

ersevay

Portuguese

verso (back, even folio, even leaf, even page, left-hand page, metre, verso), estrofe (stanza, strophe). (various references)

Romanian

versifica (versify), verset, vers (line), strofã (stanza, stave, strophe), stih, poezie (beauty, charm, line, parnassus, piece of poetry, poem, poesy, poetry, rep, rhyme), cuplet (couplet), cânta în versuri (poetize, versify). (various references)

Russian 

стих. (various references)

Scottish

rann (a division, a quatrain, division, part, portion, section), meadar (a wooden pail or vessel, circular wooden vessel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stih, izraziti u stihu. (various references)

Spanish

estrofa (stanza, stave, strophe), copla (ballad, couplet), verso (even folio, even leaf, even page, jingle, left-hand page, line, verso). (various references)

Swedish

vers, strof (stanza, stave, strophe). (various references)

Turkish

nazım (poetry), mısra, koşuk biçimine koymak, koşuk (ballad, romance), kıta (battalion, canto, continent, continental, corps, detachment, quatrain, stanza, stave, strophe), dize (line), dörtlük (crotchet, quatrain, stanza), şiir yazmak (compose, compose poetry, poetize, write poetry), şiir (numbers, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, song), ayet. (various references)

Turkmen 

юygyr (poem). (various references)

Ukranian 

строфа (stanza, strophe), розмір (admeasurement, bigness, caliber, calibre, format, metre, proportions, rate, scale, size), вірш (poem), поезія (minstrelsy, parnassus, poesy, poetry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

câu thơ thơ. (various references)

Welsh

pennill (stanza), mydr (meter), gwers (lesson), barddoniaeth (poetry), ban (arm, branch, corner, lofty, loud, part of line, peak, quarter, stanza), adnod. (various references)

carmen, poema, poema poematis, versibus, versis, versum, versumque, versus, versuum. (various references)

afsmanâca. (various references)

fers. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "verse": versed, verseman, versemen, verser, versers, verses, verset, versets. (additional references)

Words ending with "verse": adverse, averse, converse, diverse, inverse, obverse, perverse, reverse, transverse, traverse, universe. (additional references)

Words containing "verse": adversely, adverseness, adversenesses, aversely, averseness, aversenesses, bouleversement, bouleversements, conversed, conversely, converser, conversers, converses, diversely, diverseness, diversenesses, inversely, inverses, obversely, obverses, oversea, overseas, oversecretion, oversecretions, oversee, overseed, overseeded, overseeding, overseeds, overseeing, overseen, overseer, overseers, oversees, oversell, overselling, oversells, oversensitive, oversensitiveness, oversensitivenesses, oversensitivities, oversensitivity, overserious, overseriously, overservice, overserviced, overservices, overservicing, overset, oversets, oversetting, oversew, oversewed, oversewing, oversewn, oversews, oversexed, perversely, perverseness, perversenesses, reversed, reversely, reverser, reversers, reverses, transversely, transverses, traversed, traverser, traversers, traverses, universes, untraversed, unversed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Verse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kerse, nvqers, Tvesrp, vares, vars, varse, varz, varzea, vease, Veasey, veesa, veese, verae, verbe, verce, verde, vere, verez, verie, verisa, verje, verle, verme, verpe, verre, versaw, versey, versh, versi, versie, versin, Versteeg, verstehe, Verster, versum, versy, verte, vertel, verz, vesee, vesi, veso, vesr, veuse, vires, virs, virsa, vis, vorce, vores, Vorrsa, Vorse, vres, vrs, vurse, yersel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: serve, sever, veers.

-1 letter: ever, eves, rees, revs, seer, sere, veer, vees.

-2 letters: ere, ers, eve, ree, res, rev, see, ser, vee.

-3 letters: er, es, re.

+1 letter: averse, breves, elvers, everts, fevers, levers, nerves, reaves, reeves, reives, revels, revers, revest, revets, revise, revues, served, server, serves, severe, severs, soever, swerve, verges, vermes, versed, verser, verses, verset, verste, verves, vesper, vexers.

+2 letters: adverse, beavers, brevets, chevres, corvees, delvers, derives, deserve, deviser, diverse, enviers, erosive, evaders, eveners, evokers, greaves, grieves, heavers, inverse, laveers, leavers, leviers, observe, obverse, oeuvres, oversea, oversee, overset, oversew, overuse, previse, prevues, reavers, regives, reivers, releves, relives, removes, repaves, reserve, reshave, resolve, restive, reveals, reverbs, reveres, reverse, reverso, reverts, revests, reviews, reviles, revised, reviser, revises, revives, revokes, revotes, rievers, scrieve, servers, service, servile, several, severed, severer, shelver, shrieve, svelter, swerved, swerver, swerves, trevets, vealers, veeries, veilers, veiners, velures, venders, veneers, venires, venters, verbose, vergers, veriest, verites, versers, versets, versine, verstes, vervets, vespers, vesture, vetoers, viewers, weavers, weevers, wherves.

+3 letters: avengers, averages, aversely, aversive, behavers, bereaves, beshiver, bevelers, breviers, cervelas, cervices, cervixes, cleavers, conserve, converse, coverers, coveters, crescive, crevasse, crevices, decurves, delivers, depraves, deprives, derisive, derivers, deserved, deserver, deserves, desilver, devisers, disserve, dissever, diverges, enfevers, engraves, enslaver, estovers, eversion, evertors, evolvers, feverish, feverous, forevers, grievers, haverels, hoverers, innerves, inverses, levelers, leverets, liveners, liveries, nerviest, nervines, nervules, nervures, observed, observer, observes, obverses, outserve, overages, overawes, overbets, overdoes, overdose, overdyes, overeasy, overeats, overlets, overlies, oversale, oversave, overseas, overseed, overseen, overseer, oversees, oversell, oversets, oversewn, oversews, overshoe, overside, oversize, overstep, oversure, overused, overuses, overwets, overwise, pervades, perverse, perverts, preavers, prelives, preserve, prevents, previews, prevised, previses, ravelers, raveners, receives, recovers, recurves, redrives, reevokes, reinvest, relieves, relievos, removers, reproves, reserved, reserver, reserves, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, resilver, resolved, resolver, resolves, restrive, restrove, resurvey, revalues, revelers, revenges, revenues, reverers, reveries, reversal, reversed, reverser, reverses, reversos, revested, revilers, revisers, revivers, revoices, revokers, revolves, revulsed, reweaves, riveters, rivieres, scrieved, scrieves, servable, serviced, servicer, services, severals, severely, severest, severing, severity, shelvers, shelvier, shivaree, shivered, shiverer, shoveler, shrieved, shrieves, silvered, silverer, sirvente, slavered, slaverer, slivered, sliverer, sniveler, subserve, surveyed, svedberg, swervers, traverse, universe, unnerves, unreeves, unserved, unversed, veligers, veneries, venomers, ventures, verbenas, verbiles, verbless, verdures, verifies, verities, vermeils, verniers, vernixes, verseman, versemen, versicle, versines, vertexes, vertices, vesperal, vestries, vestured, vestures, veterans, vetivers, vineries, voleries, vortexes, waverers, whosever.

+4 letters: achievers, adversely, advertise, aggrieves, anteverts, assertive, averments, bedcovers, bedrivels, believers, bereavers, beshivers, bevellers, beverages, braveries, brevities, caressive, cervelats, cheverons, chivarees, cleverest, cleverish, coderives, conserved, conserver, conserves, conveners, converges, conversed, converser, converses, conveyers, corvettes, coverages, coverless, coverlets, crevalles, crevassed, crevasses, deceivers, decemvirs, depravers, deprivers, derivates, dervishes, deservers, deserving, desilvers, detersive, devilries, devourers, disserved, disserves, dissevers, diversely, diverters, divorcees, drivelers, eavesdrop, elevators, endeavors, enervates, engravers, enslavers, eruptives, eversible, eversions, evildoers, excursive, extrusive, feverfews, governess, graveless, graveness, graveside, grovelers, harvested, harvester, howsoever, inventers, inverness, inversely, inversive, invertase, inverters, knaveries, lavenders, leftovers, levanters, levatores, levellers, leverages, levirates, lifesaver, makeovers, maneuvers, nerveless, nerviness, observers, obversely, ourselves, outserved, outserves, ovenwares, overbakes, overbears, overbeats, overbites, overcomes, overcures, overdares, overdecks, overdoers, overdosed, overdoses, overdress, overdries, overedits, overfears, overfeeds, overflies, overhates, overheads, overheaps, overhears, overheats, overhopes, overhypes, overissue, overlades, overleaps, overlends, overlives, overloves, overmelts, overmines, overmixes, overplies, overrates, overrides, overrules, oversales, oversauce, oversaved, oversaves, overscale, overseeds, overseers, oversells, oversewed, oversexed, overshoes, oversides, oversized, oversizes, oversleep, overslept, oversmoke, overspend, overspent, overstate, oversteer, oversteps, overstrew, oversweet, overtakes, overtaxes, overtimes, overtires, overtness, overtones, overtures, overurges, overviews, overvotes, overwears, overweens, overzeals, parvenues, perceives, persevere, pervaders, pervasive, poverties, prelusive, preserved, preserver, preserves, pulverise, quaverers, quiverers, ravellers, receivers, recessive, reclusive, reconveys, recursive, redivides, regrooves, reinvades, reinvents, reinvests, reinvites, reinvokes, relatives, relievers, renovates, reobserve, replevies, replevins, reprieves, reprovers, repulsive, rereviews, reservers, reservice, reserving, reservist, reservoir, resilvers, resistive, resolvent, resolvers, restively, restriven, restrives, resurveys, retrieves, revampers, revanches, revealers, reveilles, revellers, revelries, revenants, revengers, revenuers, reverends, reversals, reversely, reversers, reversing, reversion, reverters, revesting, reviewals, reviewers, revisable, revisited, revolters, revolvers, revulsive, riverbeds, riverside, scavenger, scrivener, secretive, semibreve, servicers, serviette, servilely, servitude, severable, severally, severalty, severance, shivareed, shivarees, shiverers, shovelers, shoveller, shriveled, silverers, sirventes, slaverers, slaveries, sleepover, sliverers, snivelers, sovereign, stevedore, subserved, subserves, subverted, subverter, supervene, supervise, superwave, svedbergs, takeovers, taverners, timesaver, tirrivees, travelers, traversed, traverser, traverses, trouveres, trueloves, universes, unreserve, unrevised, upheavers, valerates, varieties, velarizes, velverets, veneerers, venerates, venturers, verbiages, verbifies, verbosely, verderers, verderors, verditers, vergences, verglases, verifiers, veritates, verjuices, vernacles, vernicles, verrucose, versatile, versicles, versified, versifier, versifies, vertebras, vertigoes, vesperals, vestrymen, vetiverts, virescent, volleyers, votresses, werwolves, whosoever.

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