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versant

/ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/

versant adjective: experienced, practiced.

Adjective

versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)

  1. (archaic) Experienced, practiced.
    • I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but, […]1849, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 441
  2. Conversant.
    • 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.1822, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review

Noun

versant (plural versants)

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

versant meaning in Tamil and Urdu

versant in Tamil

மலை அல்லது மலைத்தொடரின் சரிவு, இறக்கம், சரிவு

versant in Urdu

پہاڑی ڈھال, پہاڑی ڈھلان

Forms of versant

Adjective
comparativemore versant
superlativemost versant
Noun
pluralversants

Origin of versant

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

Questions about versant

What does versant mean?
Versant means experienced, practiced.
What is versant in Tamil?
Versant in Tamil is மலை அல்லது மலைத்தொடரின் சரிவு, இறக்கம், சரிவு. See Versant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is versant?
Versant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce versant?
Versant is pronounced /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/.

Words near versant in the dictionary

  1. versal
  2. versality
  3. versals
  4. versammling
  5. versammlinge
  6. versant
  7. versants
  8. versatile
  9. versatilely
  10. versatileness
  11. versatilist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: versant (page history and authors); versant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); versant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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