Verst vs Verse - What's the difference?
verst | verse |
A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile.
* 1849 , "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849):
* 1910 , , "Reginald in Russia", Reginald in Russia :
* 1918 , (Aylmer and Louise Maude), trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina , Oxford 1998, p. 604:
* 1988 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Poetic form in general.
One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
(obsolete) To compose verses.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
To tell in verse, or poetry.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
to educate about, to teach about.
* , chapter=22
, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
As nouns the difference between verst and verse
is that verst is a Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile while verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.As a verb verse is
to compose verses.verst
English
(wikipedia verst)Alternative forms
* werstNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----verse
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* blank verse * free verseVerb
(vers)- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- playing on pipes of corn and versing love
Etymology 2
Verb
(vers)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.