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Plural of verse

regular plural

The plural of verse is verses.

Forms of verse

Singularverse /vɜːs/
Pluralverses /ˈvɝsɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Verses in a sentence

  • He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.From the entry sentencing
  • The made-up "bible verses" were of course in the form of Trumpian tweets.2018, David Brody, Scott Lamb, The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography, →ISBN. From the entry Trumpian
  • Firewater: The aisles started changing my verses to support their own views.2016, Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan, Sausage Party (movie). From the entry permish
  • The songtexts are in rhymed verses, and each line is repeated once.2013, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - Volume 2 - Page 859. From the entry songtext
  • The order of place names in the verses indicates that Olaf was Gormflaith's first husband.2005, Benjamin T. Hudson, Viking Pirates and Christian Princes. From the entry Gormflaith

Meaning of verse

  1. noun A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
  2. noun Poetic form in general.
  3. noun One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

Full definition of verse

Questions about the plural of verse

What is the plural of verse?
The plural of verse is verses.
Is verse countable?
Verse is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: verse (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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