Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- prep. Against: the plaintiff versus the defendant; Army versus Navy.
- prep. As the alternative to or in contrast with: "freedom of information versus invasion of privacy” ( Ian Hamilton).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Against: used chiefly in legal phraseology: as, John Doe versus Richard Roe. Abbreviated v., vs.
Wiktionary
- conj. Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements.
- prep. against, in opposition to.
- prep. compared with, as opposed to.
- prep. Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
GNU Webster's 1913
- prep. Against; ; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
Etymologies
- From Latin versus ("against, turned"), past participle of vertere ("to turn, change, overthrow, destroy"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, turned, toward, from past participle of vertere, to turn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But in a case that would come down largely to his word versus hers, prosecutors believed the weaknesses in her history were extremely damaging.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“When you're looking at a game, what's a word versus what's a sentence versus what's a chapter versus what's a whole book?" he asked rhetorically.”
“It is hard to know how the scale is tilting between Corzine's "desire to clear his name versus his lawyer's desire to not have him answer questions" Slotnick says.”
“That's the only reason I can come up with to explain the magnitude of exaggeration in the title versus the "news" inside.”
“Lesnar (4-1), a former three-time WWE champion who played for the Minnesota Vikings during the preseason in 2004, has not fought since he successfully defended his title versus Frank Mir (13-4) by TKO (strikes) last July in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
“A Solomonic judgment would be simply to replace the word "versus" with a comma: "purely criminal, state-sponsored.”
“On May 5, 2007 in Streamwood, Illinois, MsChif was defeated by Amazing Kong for the NWA World Women's Championship in a title versus title match.”
“You know, people always point the presidents to sort of look at how they've changed, at the beginning of their term versus end of their term.”
“Job, pain versus discomfort and inconvenience, sebaceous cysts”
“But we have to differentiate between getting exposure to the agriculture theme in the short-term versus the long-term.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘versus’.
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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i.e., Latin
Latin terms sometimes more commonly known in English by their abbreviations alone.
vice versa, versus, videlicet, vide infra, verbi gratia, voce, pro tempore, per procurationem, pluta paper, post meridiem, paper, opere citato and 14 more...
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maf
sectarian, sectarian =narrow..., oppression, oppress, sort out, worldwide, legit, constrain, constrained, I feel constrained, constraint, divisive and 56 more...
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attribute, sticking, distinct, perseverance, trend, clarify, avoidant, ambivalent, disoriented, cling, prompting, appositive and 94 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Willieb's Words
pusillanimous, exigible, extraneous, contemptible, banal, generic, secular, canard, acerbic, erudite, versus, atheist and 192 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2253 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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EAP 90
gossip, Collar, compassionate, insightful, alliances, superiority, versus, discrimination, flaw, broad, commoner, miniature and 32 more...
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I'm scared one day I'll say it, "I do...
heartbeats, tessellate, reinvent, collarbones, entangle, frightened, wrists, furniture, variations, unnoticed, astride, motion and 80 more...
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