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noun literature in metrical form
noun a piece of poetry
noun a line of metrical text
originFrom Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English 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”).
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