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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vurs |
| Phonetic Transcription : vɜrs |
Definition of verse
Origin :- c.1050, "line or section of a psalm or canticle," later "line of poetry" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French and Old French vers, from Latin versus "verse, line of writing," from PIE root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). The metaphor is of plowing, of "turning" from one line to another (vertere = "to turn") as a plowman does.
- Verse was invented as an aid to memory. Later it was preserved to increase pleasure by the spectacle of difficulty overcome. That it should still survive in dramatic art is a vestige of barbarism. [Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822]
- Old English had fers, an early West Germanic borrowing directly from Latin. Meaning "metrical composition" is recorded from c.1300; sense of "part of a modern pop song" (as distinguished from the chorus) is attested from 1927. The English New Testament first was divided fully into verses in the Geneva version (1550s).
- noun written composition
- She had completed the verse with the hint of a sneer in her tones.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- It was an express order for two hundred francs, in payment of a bit of verse.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- And then Rico sang the verse and was pleased and said, "Sing some more."
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- Then Rico fiddled and sung the verse with her, and said again, "Some more."
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- Give me some more of the syrup, and then come and repeat the verse that I taught you the other day.
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- No other form of verse has, therefore, in so great a degree, the charm of freshness.
- Extract from : « The Book of Old English Ballads » by George Wharton Edwards
- And that was what made me bring forward that verse of scripter.
- Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 4. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
- The payment was small; in fact, only a few newspapers then paid anything for verse.
- Extract from : « The Poems of Henry Kendall » by Henry Kendall
- Perhaps they had never found that verse: "Avoid it, pass not by it."
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
- Ellis was only saying that verse in fun, just as lots of people do.
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
Synonyms for verse
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