verse
IPA: vˈɝs
noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- Poetic form in general.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
verb
- (obsolete) To compose verses.
- (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
- (transitive, figurative) to educate about, to teach about.
- (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against.
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Examples of "verse" in Sentences
- Since Qur'an is not poetry, the term verse is not appropriate. ...
- There is a translation of it in English verse, that is little short of the original.
- This verse is the expression of her exultation and the affirmation of her AÑÑĀ. 89 84
- Save for the line from Shakespeare and the terms from the episode, I guess the rest of the verse is a series original (is it?).
- Eusebius [276] and Cyril [277] having quoted 'the parable of the wicked husbandmen' _in extenso_ (viz. from verse 33 to verse 43), _leave off at verse_ 43.
- They are simple tales, told in English verse, which is characterised by a purity and a simplicity that are very noteworthy in an Indian writer, and which show considerable acquaintance of the
- Twenty years of his life were given to politics and statecraft, and his verse is the product not only of his own genius, but of the national spirit of Puritanism – which was the desire to establish the kingdom of God upon earth.
- On this awkward affair one of my acquaintance wrote a copy of what we called verse; I liked it, but fancied I could compose something more to the purpose: I tried, and by the unanimous suffrage of my shop-mates was allowed to have succeeded.
- I remember the great English poet, William Morris, coming in a381 rage out of some lecture hall where somebody had recited some passage out of his Sigurd the Volsung, ‘It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble’, said Morris, ‘to get that thing into verse’.382 It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.
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