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vert

/vɜːt/US/vɝt/

vert noun: a green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. Also the abbreviation of vertical.

Noun (1)

vert (countable and uncountable, plural verts)

  1. A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
    • The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.1957 February, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81
  2. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
  3. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
    • “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Adjective

vert (not comparable)

  1. In blazon, of the colour green.

Noun (2)

vert (plural verts)

  1. (colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
  2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

Noun (3)

vert (plural verts)

  1. (informal) Vertebrate.

Verb

vert (third-person singular simple present verts, present participle verting, simple past and past participle verted)

  1. (archaic, literary) To turn.
    • Theſe are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, againſt his true intent, and their Grammaticall ſenſe.1659, Thomas Fuller, “The Eleventh Book, Containing the Reign of K. Charls”, in The Appeal of Iniured Innocence: unto the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie Betwixt the...
    • Hippias not only came aboveground, he flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.1859, George Meredith, “In Which the Hero Takes a Step”, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 198

Noun (4)

vert (plural verts)

  1. (informal) Vertex.

Also used as

vert is also the abbreviation of vertical.

vert meaning in Bengali, Odia and Nepali

vert in Bengali

ভার্ট

vert in Odia

ଭର୍ଟ, ଭର୍ଟ୍

vert in Nepali

भार्ट

Examples of vert in a sentence

  • A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted:[…].1879 December 6, J[ames] Matthews Duncan, “On Retention of Mucus”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science...
  • The ducting or verting power is not as great as it should be.1903 February 7, R. C. Matheny, “Imbalance and Insufficiency of the Eye Muscles”, in George F[rederick] Shrady [Sr.], Thomas L[athrop]...

All 16 example sentences with vert

Forms of vert

Noun
pluralverts
Verb
third-person singular presentverts
present participleverting
past participleverted
pastverted

Plural of vert: verts

Origin of vert

From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Late Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.

Abbreviation of vertical.

Abbreviation of vertebrate.

Words formed from vert

Phrases with vert

Words that rhyme with vert

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Questions about vert

What does vert mean?
Vert means a green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
What is vert in Bengali?
Vert in Bengali is ভার্ট. See Vert meaning in Bengali.
How do you use vert in a sentence?
A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted:[…].
What part of speech is vert?
Vert can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce vert?
Vert is pronounced /vɜːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of vert?
The plural of vert is verts.

Words near vert in the dictionary

  1. versts
  2. versty
  3. versual
  4. versus
  5. versute
  6. vert
  7. vert ramp
  8. vert ramps
  9. vert russe
  10. vertaline
  11. vertax

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vert (page history and authors); vert (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vert (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vert (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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