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verse line — noun a line of metrical text • Syn: ↑verse • Derivationally related forms: ↑verse (for: ↑verse), ↑versify (for: ↑verse) … Useful english dictionary
verse — (n.) c.1050, line or section of a psalm or canticle, later line of poetry (late 14c.), from Anglo French and O.Fr. vers, from L. versus verse, line of writing, from PIE root *wer to turn, bend (see VERSUS (Cf. versus)). The metaphor is of plowing … Etymology dictionary
verse — [vʉrs] n. [ME vers < OE fers & OFr vers, both < L versus, a turning, verse, line, row, pp. of vertere, to turn < IE * wert , to turn < base * wer > WARP, WORM, WARDS] 1. a sequence of words arranged metrically in accordance with… … English World dictionary
verse form — noun a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines • Syn: ↑poem • Hypernyms: ↑literary composition, ↑literary work • Hyponyms: ↑abecedarius, ↑Alcaic, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Verse — Verse, n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See {Worth} to become, and cf. {Advertise}, {Averse}, {Controversy},… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verse, stanza — Verse is a term of several meanings, only one of which is fully accurate: one line of a poem. The word verse comes from a Latin term meaning a turning and is correctly applied to the way in which one line of a poem turns into a new line. Verse is … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
verse — 1 Verse, stanza both mean a unit of metrical writing. Verse is both wider and more varied in its popular usage since it can denote a single line of such writing, such writing as a class, or, along with stanza, a group of lines forming a division… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
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