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# verst

«verst» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old Russian measure of distance, a little more than a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (versts)

### meaning for a pupil

A verst is an old Russian measure of distance, a little more than a kilometre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verst/#m1)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verst/#x1)
- They built a bridge five versts long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verst/#x2)

### 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «verst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.