Noun: verse
| Singular | verse |
| Plural | verses |
Sample Sentences
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Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
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The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.
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Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
Nouns inflected like verse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”). See: Middle English Nouns '
vers', Old English Nouns '
fers'.
Verbs referencing "verse"
Irish Nouns
véarsa, Zulu Nouns
ivesi.