verse (verses. Plural)
noun
1. (not in technical use) a stanza.
2. a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem.
3.a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse.
4. a poem, or piece of poetry.
5. metrical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form.
6. metrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality:
a writer of verse, not poetry.
7.a particular type of metrical composition: elegiac verse.
8. the collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.: Miltonian verse; American verse.
9. one of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible.
10. 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.
11. Rare. a line of prose, especially a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.
12. Rare. a subdivision in any literary work.
adjective
13. of, relating to, or written in verse:
a verse play.
verb (used without object), versed, versing.
14. versify.
verb (used with object), versed, versing.
15. to express in verse.
Can be confused:
verses, versus
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versus
preposition
1. against (used especially to indicate an action brought by one party against another in a court of law, or to denote competing teams or players in a sports contest): Smith versus Jones; Army versus Navy.
2. as compared to or as one of two choices; in contrast with: traveling by plane versus traveling by train.
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