Versant

Word VERSANT
Character 7
Hyphenation ver sant
Pronunciations /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Versant"

What do we mean by versant?

The slope of a side of a mountain or mountain range. noun

The general slope of a region. noun

Familiar; conversant; versed.

In heraldry, carrying the wings erect and open.

All that part of a country which slopes or inclines in one direction; the general lie or slope of surface; aspect. noun

The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect. noun

Familiar; conversant. adjective

Experienced, practiced adjective

Conversant adjective

A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge noun

The overall slope of a region noun

The side or slope of a mountain noun

A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge

The overall slope of a region

Synonyms and Antonyms for Versant

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The word "versant" in example sentences

Filed in Music ·Tags: carah faye, carah faye charnow, versant ❋ Unknown (2009)

Abstract: A distinctive new species of rattlesnake is described from the western versant of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Filed in Music ·Tags: season of poison, shinies, shiny toy guns, versant ❋ Unknown (2008)

A new species of arboreal pitviper from the Atlantic versant of northern Central America. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike traditional cataloging, which has produced thousands of people versant in AACRII and MaRC, there are so many different metadata standards and technologies blooming all the time, that there is very little knowledge transfer in the typical mentor-mentee model. ❋ Scribe (2007)

The vegetation communities of the Cauca Valley montane forests are very diverse and range from dry enclaves in the foothills of the eastern versant of the Western range of the Andes (precipitation 500-1,000 millimeters [mm]/year), to very humid forests on the middle and upper elevations of the western versant of the Central range (precipitation up to 3,000 mm/year). ❋ Unknown (2007)

I mean the author of Origin of Species was really versant in…information theory NOT ❋ Unknown (2005)

‘That is owing to his being so much versant in old English poetry.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

The eastern versant of the Hismá is marked by long chaplets of tree and shrub, disposed along the selvage of the watercourses; and the latter are pitted with wells sunk after the fashion of the ❋ Unknown (2003)

And beyond Al-Zaribah the traveller enters a region of water-courses tending West and South-West The versant is generally from the East and South-East towards the West and North-West. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The town is situated upon a gently-shelving part of the plain, the, lowest portion of which, to judge from the versant, is at the southern base of Mount Ohod, hence called Al-Safilah, and the highest at the Awali, or plains about Kuba, and the East. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The opposite versant flowing to the north was the Kasai or Kasye (Livingstone), the Casais of the Pombeiros, the Casati of ❋ Unknown (2003)

From this point we could easily see the wide gape of the Rembwe, the south-eastern influent, or rather fork, of the Gaboon, which rises in the south-western versant of some meridional chain, and which I was assured can be ascended in three tides. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I expected a corresponding formation upon the opposite eastern versant: we found only a huge crest, a spine of black plutonic rock, intensely ugly and repulsive. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He was not con - versant with the metric system used in Proton; he thought in terms of ounces and pounds and cups and quarts. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1988)

He would thus face God in self-penetrating encounter, and would not merely be doctrinally con - versant about God. ❋ RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF (1968)

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