verses

Meaning of verses

noun
  1. writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
    a lament in verse
    verse drama
verb, 3rd person present
  1. speak in or compose verse; versify.
    he began to verse extemporaneously in her ear
    thou sat all day, playing on pipes and versing love

Old English fers, from Latin versus ‘a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus .

Information about verses

Hyphenation of verses

verses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • verses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

verses synonyms

Meaning literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature:

poetry

Meaning rhyming poetry or verse:

rhyme

Meaning (of a word, syllable, or line) having or ending with an identical or corresponding sound to another:

rhyming

Meaning ballads collectively:

balladry

Meaning comic verse composed in irregular rhythm:

doggerel

Meaning a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery:

poems, poem

Meaning a lyric poem or verse:

lyrics, lyric

Meaning correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry:

rhymes

Meaning poetry:

poesy

Meaning a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line:

sonnet

Meaning a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre:

ode

Meaning a humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba:

limerick

Meaning the nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up:

composition

Meaning a short, simple song:

ditty

Meaning a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung:

song

Meaning a short slogan, verse, or tune designed to be easily remembered, especially as used in advertising:

jingle

Meaning the general appearance of an area of land:

lay

Meaning a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next:

ballad

Meaning a contest in verse-making between troubadours:

tenson

verses antonyms

Meaning written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure:

prose

Anagrams of verses

serves, severs, sevres, Veress

Words that rhyme with verses

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