/ vɜːs; NAmE vɜːrs/ noun
1.
[ U ] writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm or pattern of rhyme
SYN poetry :
Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose.
—see also blank verse , free verse
2.
[ C ] a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song :
a hymn with six verses
3.
verses [ pl. ] ( old-fashioned ) poetry :
a book of comic verses
4.
[ C ] any one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible
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IDIOMS
see chapter
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WORD ORIGIN
Old 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 .