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UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈvɜːrs/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/vɝs/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(vûrs)

Inflections of 'verse' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
verses
v 3rd person singular
versing
v pres p
versed
v past
versed
v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
verse /vɜrs/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. Poetry[countable] one of the lines of a poem, or a line of a song.
  2. Poetry[countable] a stanza.
  3. Poetry[uncountable] poetry.
  4. Poetry a particular type of poetic line or composition:[uncountable]light verse.
  5. Bible[countable] one of the sentences into which a chapter of the Bible is conventionally divided.
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
verse (vûrs),USA pronunciation 
n. 
  1. Poetry(not in technical use) a stanza.
  2. Poetrya succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line;
    one of the lines of a poem.
  3. Poetrya particular type of metrical line:a hexameter verse.
  4. Poetrya poem, or piece of poetry.
  5. Poetrymetrical composition;
    poetry, esp. as involving metrical form.
  6. Poetrymetrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality:a writer of verse, not poetry.
  7. Poetrya particular type of metrical composition:elegiac verse.
  8. Poetrythe collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.:Miltonian verse; American verse.
  9. Bibleone of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible.
  10. 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.
  11. Poetry[Rare.]a line of prose, esp. a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.
  12. Poetry[Rare.]a subdivision in any literary work.

adj. 
  1. of, pertaining to, or written in verse:a verse play.

v.i. 
  1. versify.

v.t. 
  1. 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
  • Middle English vers(e), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, Old English fers bef. 900
    1. 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. 6. See poetry. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
verse /vɜːs/ n
  1. (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem or song
  2. poetry as distinct from prose
    • a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line
    • (as modifier): verse line
  4. a specified type of metre or metrical structure: iambic verse
  5. one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided
  6. a metrical composition; poem
 vb Etymology: Old English vers, from Latin versus a furrow, literally: a turning (of the plough), from vertere to turn
verse /vɜːs/Etymology: C21: from versus
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