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LINE OF VERSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does line of verse mean? 

LINE OF VERSE (noun)
  The noun LINE OF VERSE has 1 sense:

1. a single line of words in a poemplay

  Familiarity information: LINE OF VERSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LINE OF VERSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A single line of words in a poem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

line of poetry; line of verse

Hypernyms ("line of verse" is a kind of...):

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "line of verse"):

acatalectic ((prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables)

Alexandrine ((prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet)

catalectic ((prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot)

hypercatalectic ((prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot)

Holonyms ("line of verse" is a part of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

couplet (a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed)


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