verse

Meanings

Noun

• A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
• Poetic form in general.
• One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
• A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
• A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

Verb

• To compose verses.
• To tell in verse, or poetry.
• to educate about, to teach about.
• To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.

Origin

• From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus, from vertō.
• , misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.