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• enPR: wûrst
• (Received Pronunciation, Australian) IPA^(key): /wɜːst/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /wɜɹst/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /wøːst/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /wɛɹst/
• (India) IPA^(key): /wəːʳsʈ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Homophone: worst
• Hyphenation: werst

werst

1. Obsolete spelling of worst.

werst (plural wersts)

1. Obsolete spelling of verst.

• Trews, wrest, Werts, strew, trews

Derived from Russian верста́ (verstá).

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• Hyphenation: werst

werst f (plural wersten, diminutive werstje n)

1. verst (obsolete Russian unit of length)
   • 1974, Drs. P, “Dodenrit”, in Dodenrit:

     Het is van hier naar Omsk nog een kleine honderd werst / 't Is prettig dat de paarden net vanmiddag zijn ververst / Maar jammer dat de wolven ons toch hebben ingehaald / Men ziet de flinke eetlust die hun uit de ogen straalt

     We have just under 100 verst to go from here to Omsk / How nice that the horses were changed just this afternoon / But too bad the wolves caught up with us anyway / One can see the considerable appetite radiating from their eyes

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrst/
• Rhymes: -ɛrst
• Syllabification: werst

werst

1. genitive plural of wersta