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 →

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 →
• 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)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «verst» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.