C1noun · uncountable · rare

verve

воодушевление, вдохновение

Verve, Begeisterung, Enthusiasmus, Schwung

Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which…Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

UK/vɜːv/US/vɝv/

» Her verve stayed with her well into her old age.

Meaning

2 senses

(uncountable)Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
Verve, Begeisterung, Enthusiasmus
воодушевлениеvooduševlenije, вдохновениеvdoxnovenije
(obsolete, uncountable)A particular skill in writing.

More definitions

an energetic style

Examples

2 sentences

Her verve stayed with her well into her old age.
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Tom's got a lot of verve, it's going to carry him to success.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist musician, or writer, in composing or performing — see also spirit, vigour:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist musician, or writer, in composing or performing — see also spirit, vigour:

Origin

Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of ex

Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.

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