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versification

versification noun: the act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.

Noun

versification (countable and uncountable, plural versifications)

  1. The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
  2. The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses

versification meaning in Urdu

versification in Urdu

نظم گوئی, قافیہ پیمائی, شاعری, تک بندی, عروض

Forms of versification

pluralversifications

Origin of versification

From verse + -ification.

Words formed from versification

Questions about versification

What does versification mean?
Versification means the act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
What is versification in Urdu?
Versification in Urdu is نظم گوئی, قافیہ پیمائی, شاعری. See Versification meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is versification?
Versification is a noun.
What is the plural of versification?
The plural of versification is versifications.

Words near versification in the dictionary

  1. versicule
  2. versicules
  3. versiculi
  4. versiculus
  5. versifiable
  6. versification
  7. versifications
  8. versificator
  9. versificators
  10. versificatory
  11. versificatrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: versification (page history and authors); versification (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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