Usually means: Line of poetry; music section.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word verse:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. verse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -verse, verse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. verse, verse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. verse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. verse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Verse, verse: Wordnik
  7. verse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. 'verse, -verse, verse: Wiktionary
  9. verse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. verse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. verse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. verse: Dictionary.com
  13. verse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. verse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Verse (band), Verse (music), Verse (poetry), Verse (popular music), Verse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Verse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. verse: Rhymezone
  18. verse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. verse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. verse: Free Dictionary
  21. verse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. verse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. verse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. verse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -verse: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  5. VERSE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. verse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. verse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -verse, verse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VERSE: Acronym Finder
  2. verse: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. verse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. verse, the verse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See versed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
noun:  Poetic form in general.
noun:  One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
noun:  A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
noun:  (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
verb:  (obsolete) To compose verses.
verb:  (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) to educate about, to teach about.
verb:  (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.

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