B2

verse English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word verse once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning verse meaning

What does verse mean?

Definitions in simple English

verse Noun

— Words that use rhythm and good sounds, like the words of a song but with no music. It was a book of verse.

— A very little part of the Bible. That is found in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse sixteen.

verse Verb

— If you verse, then you study a subject in depth. He has become well versed in the classics.

verse

— noun a piece of poetry

— noun (= poetry) literature in metrical form

— noun a line of metrical text

— verb familiarize through thorough study or experience She versed herself in Roman archeology

— verb (= versify) compose verses or put into verse He versified the ancient saga

Synonyms verse synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as verse?

verse English » English

stanza

poetry

poem

rhyme

line

strophe

poesy

verse line

spell

versify

versification

sentence

quatrain

poetize

poetise

couplet

twig

stave

section

row

passage

paragraph

ode

measure

lyric

diviner

versicle

verses

v.

tune

strain

song

short section

saying

rime

prosody

printing

praise

popular song

pastoral

paragraph 3

nursery rhyme

note

metrical unit

metre

meter

limerick

legal provisions

joint

imambic

Topics verse topics

What do people use verse to talk about?

Language and thought Communication Story

Poetry

• What words refer to poems?
  poetry poem poetic sonnet verse rhyme nursery rhyme ballad epic poem
• What words refer to a part of a poem?
  line stanza verse

Social behavior Social activity Music

Sing

• What words refer to a part of a song?
  verse chorus theme note melody harmony

Social behavior Religion Theology

Sacred writings

• What words refer to a part of the sacred writings?
  chapter verse text Old/New Testament Law Prophets Gospels Epistles Apocalypse

Examples verse examples

How do I use verse in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Which chapter is this verse from?

He translated the verse into English.

In everyday life no one speaks in verse.

Movie subtitles

That was free verse, you gas house palooka.

I know the second verse there.

Here's a verse.

It's a silly little verse.

There's a secret verse.

This verse is for the happiness of all people.

Look, Osip, you're saying this verse is for universal happiness?

And you listen and pick up words, for them to make up the verse.

And what if they make up another verse?

There's no other verse.

There's only one verse for the happiness of all people.

If I add 'not fits me', there'll be a verse.

A verse and two choruses.

Isn't there a verse somewhere?

Excuse me. Are you reciting verse?

I designed them myself and my partner Mr. Laurel wrote the beautiful verse.

Second verse, please.

The first and second verse, and then maybe the tenth as well.

Song 101, first to third verse.

I prepared only one verse!

There's nothing like blank verse right after lunch.

Wasn't there an American killer given to verse?

Excuse me. I merely stated there's an American killer given to verse.

Slug he was always quoting verse.

No verse yet.

And when we kiss - what verse is this?

That was free verse, you gashouse palooka.

Hey, I know the second verse there.

Verse.

Verse I wrote.

The gospel according to St Luke, the 15th chapter, the 20th verse.

Go relieve him for the second verse.

Took it from the 31st chapter of Job, 1st verse.

I was just wondering who wrote a bit of verse and then remembered it was I.

How precise that verse that says eyes that don't see, a heart doesn't feel.

Maybe you'd better say that toast in verse?

He approved of us, but for reasons which were subtle, like his verse.

What's that corny old verse?

I need to hear your voice, no matter what you say teJJ me in a verse, my Jove, good night.

Verse number forty-eight.

News and current affairs

What Koran verse required those travellers to be roasted alive?

In his great verse drama Faust, Goethe has God send humanity the Devil (Mephistopheles) in order to stir things up.

With over a million copies in print, the manual is known as the bible of American psychiatry; certainly it is an invoked chapter and verse in schools, prisons, courts, and by mental-health professionals around the world.