- [uncountable] writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm or pattern of rhyme synonym poetry
- in verse Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- humorous
- light
- nonsense
- …
- compose
- write
- recite
- …
- form
- drama
- in verse
- [countable] a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song
- a hymn with six verses
- verses[plural] (old-fashioned) poetry
- a book of comic verses
- [countable] any one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible
- She always read a few verses from the Bible before going to bed.
Word OriginOld 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.
Idioms
See verse in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee verse in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishchapter and verse
- the exact details of something, especially the exact place where particular information may be found
- I can't give chapter and verse, but that's the rough outline of our legal position.
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