Verse

  • 31verse */*/ — UK [vɜː(r)s] / US [vɜrs] noun Word forms verse : singular verse plural verses 1) a) [countable] a group of words or sentences that form one section of a poem or song The first three verses are about her childhood. Philip sang the first verse and… …

    English dictionary

  • 32verse — I. noun Etymology: Middle English vers, fers, from Anglo French vers & Old English fers, both from Latin versus, literally, turning, from vertere to turn more at worth Date: before 12th century 1. a line of metrical writing 2. a. (1) metrical… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 33VERSE — n. f. Action de verser, état de ce qui est versé. La verse des blés. Il pleut à verse, Il pleut abondamment …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 34verse — [[t]vɜrs[/t]] n. v. versed, vers•ing 1) pro one of the lines of a poem 2) pro a particular type of metrical line or composition: hexameter verse; elegaic verse[/ex] 3) pro a poem or a piece of poetry 4) pro metrical composition; poetry, esp. as… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 35verse — n. & v. n. 1 a metrical composition in general (wrote pages of verse). b a particular type of this (English verse). 2 a a metrical line in accordance with the rules of prosody. b a group of a definite number of such lines. c a stanza of a poem or …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 36VERSÉ, ÉE — adj. Qui est expérimenté. C’est un homme versé dans les affaires de finance, dans les négociations. être versé dans la philosophie, dans les mathématiques …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 37verse — 1. noun a) A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse. b) Poetic form in general. The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time. See Also:… …

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  • 38Verse — I Vẹrse   [f ] die, linker Zufluss der Lenne im Sauerland, Nordrhein Westfalen, mündet in Werdohl. Südlich von Lüdenscheid die Versetalsperre (Stauhöhe 54 m) mit einem Fassungsvermögen von 32,8 Mio. m3. II …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 39verse (à) — (a vèr s ) loc. adv. Voy. verse n° 3, (à verse) …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 40verse — [OE] Verse is one of a large family of English words that come ultimately from the Latin verb vertere or its past participial stem vers . Others include versatile [17], version [16], versus [15], vertebra, vertical, and vertigo, as well as… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins