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verst
noun 
  1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres.
    • 1918: "Is it much further, Michael?" she asked the clerk, to dispel the thoughts that frightened her. "They say it's seven versts from this village." " Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 604)
    • 1988: You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists. " Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
Etymology: From Russian ÑÑÑ, partly through German Werst and French verste.

     
 
  

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