verst
noun (versts)
Everyday
A verst is an old Russian measure of distance, a little more than a kilometre. tree →
In the lessons
in Russian stories, a unit for how far people walk or travel along a road
Examples
- They walked and walked for several versts, then they grew tired. tree →
- They built a bridge five versts long. tree →
Note
a unit of length, not a count of things; if a problem gives versts, treat it as a measure of distance (about 1 km each)
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «verst» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «verst» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/verst/