how to pronounce verse

/vɜːs/

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verse is pronounced in one syllable

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ɜː

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An example use of verse in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… there's a piece of verse there that …”

meaning of verse

A verse is a line of poetry.

verse frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word verse occurs in english on average 14.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics verse can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that verse can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;