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verst en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vɝst/ (General-American)
• /vɜːst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

Borrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste.

Meanings

1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile.
   • ‘Is it much further, Michael?’ she asked the clerk, to dispel the thoughts that frightened her. ‘They say it's seven versts from this village.’ 1918, Aylmer and Louise Maude, translated by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 604:
   • You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists. 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
   • |The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […] 1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849)
   • Her particular part of the country was a few hundred versts the other side of Tamboff, with some fifteen miles of agrarian disturbance between her and the nearest neighbour. 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Reginald in Russia”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 6:

Forms

Translations (49)

kk шақырым (unit of length) · hy վերստ (unit of length) · xal дун (unit of length) · ka ვერსი (unit of length) · ja 露里 (unit of length) · sah биэрэстэ (unit of length) · mk врста (unit of length) · lv versts (unit of length) · et verst (unit of length) · fr verste (unit of length) · fi virsta (unit of length) · bg ве́рста (unit of length) · ro verstă (unit of length) · yue 俄里 (unit of length) · yi וויאָרסט (unit of length) · izh virsta (unit of length) · hu verszta (unit of length) · sl vrsta (unit of length) · sk versta (unit of length) · uk верста́ (unit of length) · ja ヴェルスタ (unit of length) · pl wiorsta (unit of length) · tt чакрым (unit of length) · yi ווערסט (unit of length) · fa ورست (unit of length) · ky чакырым (unit of length) · izh versta (unit of length) · ko 베르스타 (unit of length) · sv verst (unit of length) · tr çakrım (unit of length) · alt чакырым (unit of length) · be вярста́ (unit of length) · pt versta (unit of length) · tr verst (unit of length) · lt varstas (unit of length) · ba саҡрым (unit of length) · cmn 俄里 (unit of length) · az verst (unit of length) · ru верста́ (unit of length) · de Werst (unit of length) · cs versta (unit of length) · it versta (unit of length) · ja ベルスタ (unit of length) · el βέρστι (unit of length) · uz chaqirim (unit of length) · ug چاقىرىم (unit of length) · ota وهرست (unit of length) · nl werst (unit of length) · he וֶרְסְטָה (unit of length)