NONSENSE VERSE

Meaning of NONSENSE VERSE in English

noun Date: 1799 humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but meaningless nonce words

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NONSENSE VERSE — Humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but meaningless words coined for the …
Английский словарь Британика
NONSENSE VERSE — a form of light verse, usually for children, depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of fantasy, whimsical in tone and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NONSENSE VERSE — Date: 1799 : humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but meaningless nonce …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NONSENSE VERSE — Function: noun Date: 1799 : humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
NONSENSE VERSE — [nonsense verse] n (1799): humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but meaningless …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NONSENSE VERSE — humorous or whimsical verse that differs from other comic verse in its resistance to any rational or allegorical interpretation. Though …
Britannica English vocabulary
NONSENSE VERSE — Humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but meaningless words coined for the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
NONSENSE VERSE — забавно-абсурдные стихи (часто детские)
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NONSENSE VERSE — забавно-абсурдные стихи ( часто детские )
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NONSENSE VERSE — забавно-абсурдные стихи ( часто детские )
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NONSENSE VERSE — забавно-абсурдные стихи ( часто детские )
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NONSENSE VERSE — забавно-абсурдные стихи (часто детские)
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VERSE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) blank verse free verse nonsense verse society verse
Английский словарь Британика
VERSE — I. ˈvərs, ˈvə̄s, ˈvəis noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English vers, fers, from Old French vers & Old English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NONSENSE — I. ˈnänˌsen(t)s, -_sən- noun 1. a. : something that is not sense or has no sense : words or language …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
VERSE — (v. t.) To tell in verse, or poetry.
Английский словарь Webster
VERSE — ( v. t. ) To tell in verse, or poetry.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
VERSE — /verrs/ , n., adj., v., versed, versing . n. 1. (not in technical use) a stanza. 2. a succession of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NONSENSE — — nonsensical /non sen"si keuhl/ , adj. — nonsensically , adv. — nonsensicalness, nonsensicality , n. /non"sens, -seuhns/ , n. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
VERSE — I. ˈvərs noun Etymology: Middle English vers, fers, from Anglo-French vers & Old English fers, both from Latin versus, literally, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NONSENSE — I. ˈnän-ˌsen(t)s, ˈnän(t)-sən(t)s noun Date: 1614 1. a. : words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VERSE — noun a piece of poetry. 2. verse ·vt to tell in verse, or poetry. 3. verse ·noun a short division …
Webster English vocab
NONSENSE — noun trifles; things of no importance. 2. nonsense ·noun that which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or …
Webster English vocab
VERSE — [verse] n [ME vers, fr. OF & OE; both fr. L versus, lit., turning, fr. vertere to turn--more at worth] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NONSENSE — [non.sense] n (1614) 1 a: words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas b (1): language, conduct, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
VERSE — a single line of metrical composition; more broadly, the metrical composition itself or the poetic technique of a particular poem. …
Britannica English vocabulary
VERSE — verse BrE AmE vɜːs AmE vɝːs ▷ versed vɜːst AmE vɝːst ▷ verses ˈvɜːs ɪz -əz AmE \ ˈvɝːs əz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
NONSENSE — nonsense BrE AmE ˈnɒn t s ə n t s AmE \ ˈnɑːn sen t s ˈnɑːn t s ə …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
VERSE — / vɜːs; NAmE vɜːrs/ noun 1. [ U ] writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NONSENSE — / ˈnɒnsns; NAmE ˈnɑːnsens; -sns/ noun 1. [ U , C ] ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
VERSE — verse /vɜːs $ vɜːrs/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 900-1000 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: vers , from Latin …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NONSENSE — non ‧ sense S3 /ˈnɒns ə ns $ ˈnɑːnsens/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] [ Word Family: adjective : ↑ sensible …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
VERSE — n. & v. --n. 1 a metrical composition in general (wrote pages of verse). b a particular type of this …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NONSENSE — n. 1 a (often as int.) absurd or meaningless words or ideas; foolish or extravagant conduct. b an instance of …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
VERSE — n. & v. n. 1 a metrical composition in general (wrote pages of verse). b a particular type of this …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NONSENSE — n. 1 a (often as int.) absurd or meaningless words or ideas; foolish or extravagant conduct. b an instance of …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
VERSE — n. & v. --n. 1. a metrical composition in general (wrote pages of verse). b a particular type of this …
Oxford English vocab
NONSENSE — n.1 a (often as int.) absurd or meaningless words or ideas; foolish or extravagant conduct. b an instance of this. …
Oxford English vocab
VERSE — ( verses) 1. Verse is writing arranged in lines which have rhythm and which often rhyme at the end. I …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NONSENSE — 1. If you say that something spoken or written is nonsense , you mean that you consider it to be …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
VERSE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES blank verse free verse COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE blank ▪ Coleridge had developed an …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
NONSENSE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES arrant nonsense! ▪ What arrant nonsense! stands no nonsense ▪ She’s a strong woman who …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
VERSE — [noun] - writing which is arranged in short lines with a rhythmic pattern, or one of the parts into which …
Cambridge English vocab
NONSENSE — [noun], [exclamation] - an idea, something said or written, or behaviour which is foolish or ridiculousHe said that the report …
Cambridge English vocab
VERSE — n. blank verse free verse nonsense verse society verse
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
NONSENSE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
NONSENSE — See: STUFF AND NONSENSE.
Slang English vocab
NONSENSE
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
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Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
VERSE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ humorous , light , nonsense , satirical ▪ alliterative , blank , free , metred/metered , metrical …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
NONSENSE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute , arrant ( old-fashioned ), complete , pure , sheer , total , utter ▪ Most …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
VERSE — n. 25B6; noun Elizabethan verse : POETRY, versification; poems, lyrics; poetic/literary poesy. See lists. a verse he'd composed to mark …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
NONSENSE — n. 25B6; noun he was talking nonsense : RUBBISH, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, garbage; informal hogwash, rot, guff, baloney, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
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Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
VERSE — 1. сущ. 1) строфа; стих Syn : stanza, strophe 2) поэзия, стихи to cite/give/quote chapter and verse ≈ точно указать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
NONSENSE — 1. сущ. 1) абсурд, бессмыслица, вздор, ерунда, чепуха; абракадабра It was sheer nonsense to trust them. ≈ Что за ерунда, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
VERSE — verse.ogg 1. vɜ:s n 1. стих. 1> стихотворная строка; стих a stanza of six verses - строфа из шести стихов …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
NONSENSE — nonsense.ogg ʹnɒns(ə)ns n 1. часто как восклицание вздор, ерунда, чепуха; бессмыслица, абсурд; пустяки nonsense! - вздор!, пустяки! that's all nonsense …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
VERSE — verse сущ.1) строфа; стих - free verse - heroic verse Syn:stanza, strophe 2) поэзия, стихи to cite/give/quote chapter and verse …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
NONSENSE — nonsense сущ.1) абсурд, бессмыслица, вздор, ерунда, чепуха; абракадабра It was sheer nonsense to trust them. — Что за ерунда, как …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
VERSE — 1. vɜ:s n 1. стих. 1> стихотворная строка; стих a stanza of six verses - строфа из шести стихов /строк/ …
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NONSENSE — n 1. часто как восклицание вздор, ерунда, чепуха; бессмыслица, абсурд; пустяки nonsense! - вздор!, пустяки! that's all nonsense - всё …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
VERSE — 1. сущ. 1) строфа; стих - free verse - heroic verse Syn: stanza , strophe 2) поэзия, стихи to cite …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
NONSENSE — 1. сущ. 1) абсурд, бессмыслица, вздор, ерунда, чепуха; абракадабра It was sheer nonsense to trust them. — Что за ерунда, …
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