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verse
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Etymology 1
From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vert? (“to turn around”).
Noun
verse (countable and uncountable, plural verses)
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- Synonym: poetry
- Poetic form in general.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- Synonym: stanza
- A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
- Holonym: chapter
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Derived terms
- blank verse
- free verse
Related terms
- versification
- versify
Translations
Verb
verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)
- (obsolete) To compose verses.
- c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy
- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy
- (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
- (transitive, figuratively) to educate about, to teach about.
Etymology 2
Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.
Verb
verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)
- (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.
Further reading
- verse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- verse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- verse at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- reves, serve, sever, veers
Afrikaans
Noun
verse
- plural of vers
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
verse
- Inflected form of vers
Anagrams
- vrees
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??s/
Adjective
verse (plural verses)
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Noun
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Derived terms
- pleuvoir à verse
Verb
verse
- inflection of verser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- resve, rêves, rêvés, serve
Hungarian
Etymology
vers +? -e (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v?r??]
- Hyphenation: ver?se
Noun
verse
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of vers
Declension
Latin
Participle
verse
- vocative masculine singular of versus
Middle English
Noun
verse
- Alternative form of vers
Portuguese
Verb
verse
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of versar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of versar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of versar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of versar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?verse]
Verb
verse
- third-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa
- third-person plural present subjunctive of v?rsa
Spanish
Verb
verse (first-person singular present me veo, first-person singular preterite me vi, past participle visto)
- to meet; to see one another
Conjugation
Related terms
- ver
Verb
verse
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of versar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of versar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of versar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of versar.
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shloka
English
Alternative forms
- sloka
- sloke (archaic)
Etymology
From Sanskrit ????? (?loka).
Noun
shloka (plural shlokas)
- A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 268:
- But it's not to be yet. There's a series of slokas to be recited.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 3:
- They had heard Swamiji on their radio sets describe yoga asanas and quote shlokas from ancient Sanskrit texts.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 268:
Anagrams
- Halkos, Khosla
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