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adjective
experienced; practiced; skilled; learned (usually followed by in ): She was well versed in Greek and Latin.
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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.
a.
that part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus.
b.
a part of a song designed to be sung by a solo voice.
11.
Rare. a line of prose, especially a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.
12.
Rare. a subdivision in any literary work.
adjective
13.
of, pertaining to, or written in verse: a verse play.
verb (used without object)
14.
verb (used with object)
15.
to express in verse.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English vers(e), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, Old English fers < Latin versus a row, line (of poetry), literally, a turning, equivalent to vert(ere) to turn (past participle versus) + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s; akin to -ward, worth2
before 900; Middle English vers(e), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, Old English fers < Latin versus a row, line (of poetry), literally, a turning, equivalent to vert(ere) to turn (past participle versus) + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s; akin to -ward, worth2
Related forms
un·der·verse, noun
Synonyms
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.
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.
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World English Dictionary
verse (vɜːs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem |
| 2. | poetry as distinct from prose |
| 3. | a. a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line |
| b. (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 | |
| 7. | a rare word for versify |
| [Old English vers, from Latin versus a furrow, literally: a turning (of the plough), from vertere to turn] | |
| versed (vɜːst) | |
| —adj (foll by in) | |
| thoroughly knowledgeable (about), acquainted (with), or skilled (in) | |
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Word Origin & History
verse
c.1050, "line or section of a psalm or canticle," later "line of poetry" (c.1369), from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. vers, from L. versus "verse, line of writing," from PIE base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus). The metaphor is of plowing, of "turning" from one line to another (vertere
= "to turn") as a plowman does. O.E. had fers, an early W.Gmc. borrowing directly from L. 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 N.T. first divided fully into verses in the Geneva version (1551).
"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]
versed
"practiced," 1610, from pp. of obsolete verse "to turn over" (a book, subject, etc.) in study or investigation, from M.Fr. verser "to turn, revolve" as in meditation, from L. versare "to busy oneself," lit. "to turn to" (see versus).
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Cultural Dictionary
verse definition
A kind of language made intentionally different from ordinary speech or prose. It usually employs devices such as meter and rhyme, though not always. Free verse, for example, has neither meter nor rhyme. Verse is usually considered a broader category than poetry, with the latter being reserved to mean verse that is serious and genuinely artistic.
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Example sentences
Or you could try a chorded jellyfish keyboard, although the learning curve seems formidable for those not versed in mind-melding.
He's versed in shipwreck history but would rather talk about how to minimize risks and amortize costs.
Both goals can be met when the employer is versed in effective techniques for interviewing job applicants.
He was extremely well versed in popular literature, and refers to it often.
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