"verst" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /vɜːst/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vɝst/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-versed.wav Forms: versts [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st Etymology: Borrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|верста́}} Russian верста́ (verstá), {{der|en|de|Werst}} German Werst, {{der|en|fr|verste}} French verste Head templates: {{en-noun}} verst (plural versts)
  1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile. Wikipedia link: verst Categories (topical): Units of measure Synonyms: versta, verste, werst Translations (unit of length): վերստ (verst) (Armenian), verst (Azerbaijani), саҡрым (saqrım) (Bashkir), вярста́ (vjarstá) [feminine] (Belarusian), ве́рста (vérsta) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 俄里 (ngo⁴ lei⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 俄里 (élǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), versta [feminine] (Czech), werst [feminine] (Dutch), verst (Estonian), virsta (Finnish), verste [feminine] (French), ვერსი (versi) (Georgian), Werst [feminine] (German), βέρστι (vérsti) (Greek), וֶרְסְטָה [feminine] (Hebrew), verszta (Hungarian), versta (Ingrian), virsta (Ingrian), versta [feminine] (Italian), 露里 (rori) (alt: ろり) (Japanese), ベルスタ (berusuta) (Japanese), ヴェルスタ (verusuta) (Japanese), шақырым (şaqyrym) (Kazakh), 베르스타 (bereuseuta) (Korean), чакырым (cakırım) (Kyrgyz), versts [masculine] (Latvian), varstas [masculine] (Lithuanian), врста (vrsta) [feminine] (Macedonian), وهرست (verst) (Ottoman Turkish), ورست (verst) (Persian), wiorsta [feminine] (Polish), versta [feminine] (Portuguese), verstă [feminine] (Romanian), верста́ (verstá) [feminine] (Russian), versta [feminine] (Slovak), vrsta [feminine] (Slovene), чакырым (čakïrïm) (Southern Altai), verst [common-gender] (Swedish), чакрым (çaqrım) (Tatar), verst (Turkish), çakrım (Turkish), верста́ (verstá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), چاقىرىم (chaqirim) (Uyghur), chaqirim (Uzbek), биэрэстэ (biereste) (Yakut), ווערסט (verst) [masculine] (Yiddish), וויאָרסט (vyorst) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-verst-en-noun-xbIGdHTz Categories (other): Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Bashkir translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Kyrgyz translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Southern Altai translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tatar translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Uyghur translations, Terms with Uzbek translations, Terms with Yakut translations, Terms with Yiddish translations

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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Werst"
      },
      "expansion": "German Werst",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "verste"
      },
      "expansion": "French verste",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "versts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "verst (plural versts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
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        "English terms with audio links",
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        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)st",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)st/1 syllable",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Bashkir translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Cantonese translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ingrian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Southern Altai translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tatar translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Uyghur translations",
        "Terms with Uzbek translations",
        "Terms with Yakut translations",
        "Terms with Yiddish translations",
        "en:Units of measure"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1849, \"The Observatory at Pulkowa\" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849)",
          "text": "|The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Aylmer and Louise Maude, translated by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 604",
          "text": "‘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.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron",
          "text": "You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "length",
          "length"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "verst"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/vɜːst/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vɝst/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)st"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "versed"
    },
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    {
      "word": "versta"
    },
    {
      "word": "verste"
    },
    {
      "word": "werst"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "verst",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "վերստ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "verst"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "saqrım",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "саҡрым"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vjarstá",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вярста́"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vérsta",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ве́рста"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "ngo⁴ lei⁵",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "俄里"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "élǐ",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "俄里"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "versta"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "werst"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "verst"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "virsta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "verste"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "versi",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "ვერსი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Werst"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vérsti",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "βέρστι"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "וֶרְסְטָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "verszta"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "versta"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "virsta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "versta"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろり",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rori",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "露里"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "berusuta",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "ベルスタ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "verusuta",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "ヴェルスタ"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "şaqyrym",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "шақырым"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bereuseuta",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "베르스타"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "cakırım",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "чакырым"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "versts"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "varstas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vrsta",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "врста"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "verst",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "وهرست"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "verst",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "ورست"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wiorsta"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "versta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "verstă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "verstá",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "верста́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "versta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vrsta"
    },
    {
      "code": "alt",
      "lang": "Southern Altai",
      "roman": "čakïrïm",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "чакырым"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "verst"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "çaqrım",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "чакрым"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "verst"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "çakrım"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "verstá",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "верста́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "chaqirim",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "چاقىرىم"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "chaqirim"
    },
    {
      "code": "sah",
      "lang": "Yakut",
      "roman": "biereste",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "word": "биэрэстэ"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "verst",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ווערסט"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "vyorst",
      "sense": "unit of length",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "וויאָרסט"
    }
  ],
  "word": "verst"
}

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