verseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 vers, from a mixture of 古期英語 fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).

名詞

verse (countable and uncountable, plural verses)

1. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

   Synonym: poetry

   Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.

2. Poetic form in general.

   The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.

3. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

   Synonym: stanza

   Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.

4. A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)

   Holonym: chapter

5. (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

派生語

関連する語

• versification
• versify

動詞

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (obsolete) To compose verses.
   • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:

     It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.

2. (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     playing on pipes of corn and versing love

3. (transitive, figurative) to educate about, to teach about.

   He versed us in the finer points of category theory.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

語源 2

Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.

動詞

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against.
   • 2007 March 26, Nick Green, “Being illiterate and innumerate shouldn’t shame anyone”, in Sydney Morning Herald‎:

     When teams play now they "verse" each other. "Who did you verse?" (Forget "whom". It's long dead.) "We're versing you next." Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of "versus" more keenly than many.

   • 2009 August 11, CrazyGunner [username], “Verse me on Onslaught”, in Nintendo Life‎:

     If you've got Onslaught let me know and I'll verse you.

   • 2020 April 9, AgentPigeon122 [username], “The Graphic Organizer Information”, in Course Hero‎:

     Ariel is worried for the race, because she is versing her best competitor, and she really wants to win.

   • 2023, “There had to be blood” (4:13 from the start), in Taskmaster NZ‎, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Mel Bracewell:

     There was an ODI last year where the Blackcaps versed Ireland, and we almost lost, but we didn't.

Further reading

• “verse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “verse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “verse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• reves, serve, sever, veers

名詞

'verse (plural 'verses)

1. (fandom slang) The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set.
   • 2006 August 22, “Life in the 'verse AFTER the BDM”, in alt.tv.firefly‎ (Usenet):

     How has the landscape of the 'verse changed? Was there a toppling of the Alliance government?

   • 2007, Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly‎, page 51:

     In the dystopian Firefly ‘verse, the government itself is “antisocial.”

   • 2007, Corey Bridges, “The Virtual ‘Verse”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe:

     Happily, it's a fun ‘verse for a journey. It's no accident that Joss Whedon built Firefly with the elements of a great MMOG.

   • 2008, K. Dale Koontz, Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon‎, page 160:

     In the Firefly/Serenity ‘verse (as in ours), unstable teenage girls are not supposed to be able to kill three men with three shots.

2. Clipping of universe.

上位語

• Whedonverse

アナグラム

• reves, serve, sever, veers

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /vəːs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /vɚs/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)s

接尾辞

-verse

1. Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element. [from 20th c.]
   • 2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:

     Quite simply, a feed reader lets you stay up to date with all your friends in the blogiverse, without forcing you to surf back to every blog 94 times a day to check if anything's new.

   • 2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:

     The “Twitterverse” was alive with eyewitness accounts, but CNN was silent about the disputed election and those coming out to support the Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.

2. Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc. [from 20th c.]
   • 2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150:

     Women's lib in the BSGverse.

   • 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:

     This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.

派生語

アナグラム

• reves, serve, sever, veers