Verse

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English

Noun

Verse (plural Verses)
  1. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
    Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
  2. Poetic form in general.
    The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time.
  3. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
    Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
  4. (fandom slang) A specific fictional universe.

Verb

Verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

  1. To educate about, to teach about.
    He versed us in the finer points of category theory.

Verb

Verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

  1. To face someone in some kind of game, duel, or battle

Adjectives for Verse

unpremeditated; mature; evocative; ironic; abominable; flower-sweet; golden; deathless; luxurious; dramatic; magnificent; prosaic; little; magnanimous; well-cadenced; jolly; metaphysical; immortal; marvellous; graceful; introspective; devotional; macaronic; malicious; supererogatory; graceful; slumberous; polished; society; various (pi); measured; heroic; flattering; homely; blank; realistic; faultless; exquisite; sonorous; caustic; singable; sanguinary; halting; rustic; numerous (pi); neglected; faltering; patriotic; poetic; fascinating; goodly; doggerel; trashy; matchless; piercing; common; undistinguished; musical; balanced; classical; mournful; distinctive; satiric; quill-writ; soothing; galloping; insulting; delicate; melodious; non-dramatic; sorrowful; alliterative; inspired; tolerable; ennobling; clever; octosyllabic; circulated; mechanical; commonplace; comic; unfinished; coarse; outstanding; ridiculous; assonanced; occasional.

Verbs for Verse

bawl—; carol—; compose—; dash off—; declaim—; divide into—s; enumerate—s; inscribe—on; improvise—; measure—; memorize—; peruse—; polish—; quote—; render —; scan—; scrawl—; sing—; —delights; —effloresces; —eulogizes; —proclaims; — rhymes; —sings of.

Thesaurus

English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian stanza, acquaint, adage, advertise, advertise of, advise, alba, ana, anacreontic, anacrusis, analects, antistrophe, aphorism, apothegm, apprise, article, avant-propos, axiom, back matter, balada, ballad, ballade, bass passage, book, bourdon, breakthrough, bridge, brief, bring word, bucolic, burden, byword, cadence, canso, canto, catchword, chanson, chapter, chorus, clause, clerihew, climb Parnassus, coda, collected sayings, column, communicate, compose poetry, couplet, current saying, development, dictate, dictum, dirge, disclose, distich, dithyramb, division, eclogue, elegize, elegy, enlighten, envoi, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, exordium, exposition, expression, familiarize, fascicle, figure, folderol, folio, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, gathering, georgic, ghazel, give notice, give the facts, give word, gnome, golden saying, haiku, harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, idyll, inform, innovation, installment, instruct, interlude, intermezzo, introduction, introductory phrase, jingle, lay, leap, leave word, let know, limerick, line, lisp in numbers, livraison, lyric, madrigal, make immortal verse, maxim, measure, mention to, monody, monostich, moral, mot, motto, mount Pegasus, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, musical thought, narrative poem, notify, number, nursery rhyme, octastich, octave, octet, ode, oracle, ornament, ottava rima, overture, page, palinode, paragraph, part, passage, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, pentastich, period, phrase, pithy saying, poem, poesy, poetize, poetry, postulate, preamble, precept, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, prescript, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, prothalamium, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quatrain, refrain, report, resolution, response, rhyme, rhyme royal, ritornello, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, saw, saying, section, send word, sentence, sententious expression, septet, serial, serve notice, sestet, sestina, sextet, sheet, signature, sing, sing deathless songs, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, speak, stanza, statement, stave, stock saying, strain, strophe, sutra, syllable, tailpiece, tanka, teaching, tell, tenso, tenzone, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, triplet, tristich, troubadour poem, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verselet, versicle, versify, villanelle, virelay, volume, voluntary, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, write poetry

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Partly from Old English vers; partly < Old French vers; both < Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”) < vertō (“to turn around”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Corruption of versus, from Latin versus (“against, turned”), past participle of vertere (“to turn, change, overthrow, destroy”).

Translations

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

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Dutch

Adjective

verse

  1. The inflected formFAQ of vers.</span>

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French

Verb

Verse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of verser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of verser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of verser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of verser
  5. second-person singular imperative of verser

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Latin

Participle

verse

  1. vocative masculine singular of versus

Spanish

Verb

Verse (first-person singular present me veo, first-person singular preterite me vi, past participle visto)

  1. to meet; to see one another

Conjugation

    Conjugation of verse (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive verse
gerund viéndose
past participle visto
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú él/ella
usted 		nosotros vosotros ellos/ellas
ustedes
present me veo te ves se ve nos vemos os veis se ven
imperfect me veía te veías se veía nos veíamos os veíais se veían
preterite me vi te viste se vio nos vimos os visteis se vieron
future me veré te verás se verá nos veremos os veréis se verán
conditional me vería te verías se vería nos veríamos os veríais se verían
subjunctive yo tú él/ella
usted 		nosotros vosotros ellos/ellas
ustedes
present me vea te veas se vea nos veamos os veáis se vean
imperfect
(ra) 		me viera te vieras se viera nos viéramos os vierais se vieran
imperfect
(se) 		me viese te vieses se viese nos viésemos os vieseis se viesen
future me viere te vieres se viere nos viéremos os viereis se vieren
imperative — tú usted nosotros vosotros ustedes
affirmative vete véase veámonos veos véanse
negative no te veas no se vea no nos veamos no os veáis no se vean
Other verbs with this conjugation: {{#categorytree:Spanish verbs ending in -er (conjugation ver)|namespaces="-"|depth=0|class="derivedterms"}}

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Verb

Verse (infinitive versar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of versar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of versar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of versar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of versar.
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