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verse

noun

1 she provides written commentary in prose and verse:

poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel;

poems, lyrics, rhymes;

literary poesy, Parnassus.

▷antonyms prose.

2 he sent me a verse he'd composed especially to mark my anniversary:

poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel;

ditty, song, jingle, lay, ballad;

rare tenson, verselet.

3 a poem with sixty verses:

stanza, strophe, stave, canto;

couplet, distich, triplet, tercet, tetrastich;

part, section, portion.

verb

the author does not seem thoroughly versed in the scholarship of her field:

acquainted with, conversant with, familiar with, informed about, knowledgeable about, well informed about, instructed in, skilled in, proficient in;

at home with, no stranger to, au fait with, au courant with, apprised of, abreast of, up to date with, in touch with;

informal well up on, in the know about, genned up on, clued in on, clued up on, plugged into;

British, informal switched on to.

▷antonyms unfamiliar with.

verse Oxford Dictionary of English