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Verse vs Improvisatore - What's the difference?

verse | improvisatore |

As nouns the difference between verse and improvisatore

is that verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme while improvisatore is an individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.

As a verb verse

is (obsolete) to compose verses or verse can be to educate about, to teach about or verse can be (colloquial) to oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.

verse

English

Etymology 1

Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
  • Poetic form in general.
  • One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
  • A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
  • Derived terms
    * blank verse * free verse

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (obsolete) To compose verses.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
  • To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • playing on pipes of corn and versing love

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (vers)
  • to educate about, to teach about.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

    Etymology 3

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

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    improvisatore

    English

    Noun

    (improvisatori)
  • An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
  • * 1842: Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
  • There were buffoons, there were improvisatori , there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine.

    References

    * "Improvisatore", Encyclopædia Britannica , 1911, vol. 14, p. 348. English nouns with irregular plurals