Definition of "versts" []

• Plural form of verst. (noun)

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• "Four versts from the town, near the airfield, on the road to Romanovka."
• "The countess who owned his village on the steep bank of the Volga five hundred versts from Moscow, feeling guilty for the centuries of serfdom, provided him with a scholarship to attend engineering school."
• "In order to provide them with incentives he insisted that we shall go forward for ten-twenty versts kilometers and hang the kulaks, priests, and landowners."