versant

Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/

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versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)

1. (archaic) Experienced, practiced.
   • 1849, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 441:

     I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but,  […]

2. Conversant.
   • 1822, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review:

     This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.

versant (plural versants)

1. A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.
2. The overall slope of a region.

• servant, starven, taverns

versant

1. gerund of versar

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.sɑ̃/

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versant m (plural versants)

1. slope, side

versant

1. present participle of verser

• “versant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• servant

versant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of versō

versant m (plural versant)

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Borrowed from French versant.

versant n (plural versante)

1. slope, side