verse
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme schemeA poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
» He translated the verse into English.
Er übersetzte die Strophe ins Englische.
Meaning
5 senses(countable, uncountable)A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
Vers
стихstix
віршvirš
(countable, uncountable)Poetic form in general.
The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.
стихstix
пое́маpoéma, пое́зіяpoézija
literature in metrical form
(countable, uncountable)One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
Strophe, Vers
купле́тkuplét, строфа́strofá
(countable, uncountable)A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
Vers
стихstix
віршvirš
(countable, uncountable)A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Examples
121 sentencesHe translated the verse into English.
deEr übersetzte die Strophe ins Englische.
This ballad is thirty verses long.
Tom forgot the words to the second verse, so he sang the first verse again.
I really like decasyllabic verses in poetry.
Мені дуже подобаються десятискладові вірші в поезії.
Let's read a few verses from the Bible.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both froFrom Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
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Forms
plural: versesSynonyms
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