Verse (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. (not in technical use) a stanza.
  2. a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem.
  3. a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse.
  4. a poem, or piece of poetry.
  5. metrical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form.
  6. metrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality: a writer of verse, not poetry.
  7. a particular type of metrical composition: elegiac verse.
  8. the collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.: Miltonian verse;American verse.
  9. one of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible.
  10. Music.
    • 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. a line of prose, especially a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.
  12. a subdivision in any literary work.
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or written in verse: a verse play.
verb (used without object), versed, vers·ing.
  1. versify (def. 3).
verb (used with object), versed, vers·ing.
  1. to express in verse.
verb (used with object)
  1. to play against; be the opponent of, as in a game or match: Want to verse me in this new RPG?We lost against the Wildcats when we versed them a couple of days ago.
  1. a combining form extracted from universe, occurring as the final element in compounds with the sense “in the sphere or realm of”: Chaos is erupting in the Twitterverse right now.We try to stick with using the Linuxverse on our computers.A new publisher is big news in the writerverse.
  2. a combining form extracted from universe, used in forming names for a fictional world associated with a particular media franchise: the Whoniverse of Doctor Who;the BTTF-verse of Back to the Future;the Vorkosiverse of the Vorkosigan Saga.
noun
  1. (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem
  2. poetry as distinct from prose
    • a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line
    • (as modifier)
  4. a specified type of metre or metrical structure
  5. one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided
  6. a metrical composition; poem
verb
  1. a rare word for versify
Verse (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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