verse
noun
[ vəːs ]
• writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
• "a lament in verse"
Similar:
poetry,
versification,
metrical composition,
rhythmical composition,
rhyme,
rhyming,
balladry,
doggerel,
poems,
lyrics,
rhymes,
poesy,
Parnassus,
poem,
piece of poetry,
lyric,
sonnet,
ode,
limerick,
composition,
piece of doggerel,
ditty,
song,
jingle,
lay,
ballad,
tenson,
verselet,
verse
verb
• speak in or compose verse; versify.
• "he began to verse extemporaneously in her ear"
Origin:
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 .
-verse
combining form
• denoting an area of activity or interest or a section of society distinguished by a particular characteristic.
• "mediaverse"
Origin:
1980s: from universe.
