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Webster 1913 Edition


Verst

Verst

,
Noun.
[Russ.
versta
: cf. F.
verste
.]
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
[Written also
werst
.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Verst

VERST

,
Noun.
A Russian measure of length, containing 1166 2/3 yards, or 3500 feet; about three quarters of an English mile.

Definition 2024


verst

verst

English

Alternative forms

Noun

verst (plural versts)

  1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile.
    • 1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849):
      The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, []
    • 1910, ‘Saki’, "Reginald in Russia", Reginald in Russia:
      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.
    • 1918, Aylmer and Louise Maude, trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford 1998, p. 604:
      ‘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.’
    • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
      You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛrst

Adjective

verst

  1. Superlative form of ver

Adjective

verst

  1. Superlative form of vers

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vɛst]

Adverb

verst

  1. worst, superlative degree of illa

Middle English

Noun

verst

  1. first

Adjective

verst

  1. first

Adverb

verst

  1. first

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse verstr

Alternative forms

Adjective

verst

  1. worst; indefinite superlative of vond
  2. indefinite superlative of ille
  3. indefinite superlative of ond

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