{
    "term": "verse",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm or pattern of rhyme",
            "sensetop": "in verse",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose.",
                    "contextForm": "in verse"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "poetry",
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["humorous", "light", "nonsense"],
                "verb + verse": ["compose", "write", "recite"],
                "verse + noun": ["form", "drama"],
                "preposition": ["in verse"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a hymn with six verses"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "poetry",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a book of comic verses"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "any one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She always read a few verses from the Bible before going to bed."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the exact details of something, especially the exact place where particular information may be found",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can't give chapter and verse, but that's the rough outline of our legal position."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/vɜːs/",
                "audio": "ve/verse/verse__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/vɜːrs/",
                "audio": "ve/verse/verse__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English fers, from Latin versus ‘a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus."
}