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verste

verste is the obsolete spelling of verst.

Meaning of verst

Noun

verst (plural versts)

  1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile.
    • |The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […]1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849)

Forms of verste

pluralverstes

Questions about verste

What is verste the obsolete spelling of?
Verste is the obsolete spelling of verst.

Words near verste in the dictionary

  1. verspecies
  2. verst
  3. versta
  4. Verstappen
  5. verstas
  6. verste
  7. Versteeg
  8. Versteegs
  9. verstehen
  10. verstes
  11. Verstraete

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Adapted from Wiktionary: verste (page history and authors); verst (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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