What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Versed vs Verse - What's the difference?

versed | verse |

As an adjective versed

is knowledgeable or skilled, either through study or experience; familiar; practiced.

As a noun verse is

dew, dampness.

versed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • knowledgeable or skilled, either through study or experience; familiar; practiced
  • * Milton
    • deep versed in books and shallow in himself
  • * Southey
    • opinions derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of his age
  • * Macaulay
    • These men were versed in the details of business.

    See also

    * versed sine

    Anagrams

    *

    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
    Related terms
    * versification * versify

    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.

    • External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * ----