verse

Pronunciation: /ˈvɝs/

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun literature in metrical form
  2. noun a piece of poetry
  3. noun a line of metrical text

Etymology

From 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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

poetry, poesy

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
writing style
Narrower (hyponyms)
heroic poetry, epos

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