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Main Entry:: ¹verse
Pronunciation:: \ˈvərs\
Function:: noun
Etymology:: Middle English vers, fers, from Anglo-French vers & Old English fers, both from Latin versus, literally, turning, from vertere to turn — more at worth
Date:: before 12th century

1: a line of metrical writing2 a (1): metrical language (2): metrical writing distinguished from poetry especially by its lower level of intensity (3): poetry 2 b: poem c: a body of metrical writing (as of a period or country)3: stanza4: one of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided

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