verst
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /vɝst/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
- Homophone: versed
Noun
editverst (plural versts)
- 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 [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Reginald in Russia”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 6:
- 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, translated by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 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.
- 1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849):
Translations
editunit of length
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Faroese
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Icelandic
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Norwegian Bokmål
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editverst
- indefinite singular superlative degree of vond: worst
- indefinite singular superlative degree of ille: worst
- indefinite singular superlative degree of ond: worst
References
edit- “verst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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References
edit- “verst” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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