Definition of verse
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : a line of metrical writing
2a(1) : metrical language
(2) : metrical writing distinguished from poetry especially by its lower level of intensity
(3) : poetry sense 2
b : poem
c : a body of metrical writing (as of a period or country)
3 : stanza sense 1
4 : one of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided
verse
verbversed; versing
Definition of verse (Entry 2 of 2)
: to make verse : versify
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