verst

• versta
• verste
• werst

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɝst/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Homophone: versed

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 [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.

• 'verts, trevs, verts

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• Rhymes: -ɛrst

verst

1. superlative degree of ver

verst

1. superlative degree of vers

• IPA^(key): [vɛst]

verst

1. worst, superlative degree of illa

verst

1. worst, superlative degree of illa

verst

1. first

verst

1. first

verst

1. first

• vondest

From Old Norse verstr.

• (Fredrikstad dialect) IPA^(key): [ʋɛ̝ʂːʈ]

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verst

1. indefinite singular superlative degree of vond: worst
2. indefinite singular superlative degree of ille: worst
3. indefinite singular superlative degree of ond: worst

• “verst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse verst.

verst

1. worst

• “verst” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.