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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024versed /vɜrst/USA pronunciation adj. [be + ~ (+ in)]- experienced or practiced:versed in Latin.
See -vert-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024versed (vûrst),USA pronunciation adj. - experienced;
practiced;
skilled;
learned (usually fol. by in):She was well versed in Greek and Latin.
- Latin versātus busied, engaged (see versatile), with -ed2 for Latin -ātus
- 1600–10
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: versed /vɜːst/ adj - (postpositive) followed by in: thoroughly knowledgeable (about), acquainted (with), or skilled (in)
verse /vɜrs/USA pronunciation n. - Poetry[countable] one of the lines of a poem, or a line of a song.
- Poetry[countable] a stanza.
- Poetry[uncountable] poetry.
- Poetry a particular type of poetic line or composition:[uncountable]light verse.
- Bible[countable] one of the sentences into which a chapter of the Bible is conventionally divided.
See -vert-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024verse (vûrs),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., versed, vers•ing.
n. - Poetry(not in technical use) a stanza.
- Poetrya succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line;
one of the lines of a poem. - Poetrya particular type of metrical line:a hexameter verse.
- Poetrya poem, or piece of poetry.
- Poetrymetrical composition;
poetry, esp. as involving metrical form. - Poetrymetrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality:a writer of verse, not poetry.
- Poetrya particular type of metrical composition:elegiac verse.
- Poetrythe collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.:Miltonian verse; American verse.
- Bibleone of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible.
- Music and Dance
- 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.
- Poetry[Rare.]a line of prose, esp. a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.
- Poetry[Rare.]a subdivision in any literary work.
adj. - of, pertaining to, or written in verse:a verse play.
v.i. - versify.
v.t. - to express in verse.
- Latin versus a row, line (of poetry), literally, a turning, equivalent. to vert(ere) to turn (past participle versus) + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action, with dt s; akin to -ward, worth2
- Middle English vers(e), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, Old English fers bef. 900
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Verse, stanza, strophe, stave are terms for a metrical grouping in poetic composition. Verse is often mistakenly used for stanza, but is properly only a single metrical line. A stanza is a succession of lines (verses) commonly bound together by a rhyme scheme, and usually forming one of a series of similar groups that constitute a poem:The four-line stanza is the one most frequently used in English.Strophe (originally the section of a Greek choral ode sung while the chorus was moving from right to left) is in English poetry practically equivalent to "section''; a strophe may be unrhymed or without strict form, but may be a stanza:Strophes are divisions of odes.Stave is a word (now seldom used) that means a stanza set to music or intended to be sung:a stave of a hymn; a stave of a drinking song.
- 4, 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See poetry.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: verse /vɜːs/ n - (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem
- poetry as distinct from prose
- a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line
- (as modifier): verse line
- a specified type of metre or metrical structure: iambic verse
- one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided
- a metrical composition; poem
vb - a rare word for versify
Etymology: Old English vers, from Latin versus a furrow, literally: a turning (of the plough), from vertere to turn |