versus

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɜːsəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɜːsɪz/
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• General-American: /ˈvɝsəs/
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• General-American: /ˈvɝsəz/
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• General-American, proscribed: /ˈvɝs/
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• South-Asia: /ˈvɜ(r)səs/
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• /ˈvɪsəs/ Tamil Nadu
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)səs
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• homophone: verses
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• General-American: /ˈvɝs/
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• homophone: verse
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• CMU ARPABET: V ER1 S AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: V ER1 S AH0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English versus, borrowed from Latin versus (“facing”), past participle of vertere (“to turn, change, overthrow, destroy”).

98 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فِي مُقَابِل (fī muqābil) — in opposition to
• Arabic: ضِِدَّ (ḍiidda) — in opposition to
• Armenian: ընդդեմ (ənddem) — in opposition to
• Armenian: դեմ (dem) — in opposition to
• Belarusian: су́праць (súpracʹ) — in opposition to
• Bulgarian: срещу (sreštu) — in opposition to
• Catalan: en contra — in opposition to
• Catalan: enfront de — in opposition to
• Chinese Cantonese: 對 /对 (deoi3) — in opposition to
• Chinese Mandarin: 對 /对 (duì) — in opposition to
• Czech: versus — in opposition to
• Czech: oproti — in opposition to
• Danish: mod — in opposition to
• Dutch: tegen — in opposition to
• Esperanto: kontraŭ — in opposition to
• Finnish: vastaan — in opposition to
• Finnish: versus — in opposition to
• French: contre — in opposition to
• French: face à — in opposition to
• French: versus — in opposition to
• Georgian: წინააღმდეგ (c̣inaaɣmdeg) — in opposition to
• German: gegen — in opposition to
• German: im Gegensatz zu — in opposition to
• German: contra — in opposition to
• Greek: κατά (katá) — in opposition to
• Greek: βέρσους (vérsous) — in opposition to
• Hebrew: נֶגֶד (néged) — in opposition to
• Hungarian: kontra — in opposition to
• Icelandic: á móti — in opposition to
• Icelandic: móti — in opposition to
• Ido: kontre — in opposition to
• Irish: in aghaidh — in opposition to
• Italian: contro — in opposition to
• Japanese: 対 (tai) — in opposition to
• Japanese: バーサス (bāsasu) — in opposition to
• Khmer: ទល់នឹង (tŭəlnɨng) — in opposition to
• Korean: 대 (dae) — in opposition to
• Latin: contrā — in opposition to
• Malay: lawan — in opposition to
• Norwegian: versus — in opposition to
• Polish: kontra — in opposition to
• Polish: versus — in opposition to
• Portuguese: contra — in opposition to
• Portuguese: vérsus — in opposition to
• Romanian: contra — in opposition to
• Romanian: împotriva — in opposition to
• Russian: про́тив (prótiv) — in opposition to
• Serbo-Croatian: nasprotiv — in opposition to
• Serbo-Croatian: protiv — in opposition to
• Slovene: proti — in opposition to
• Spanish: contra — in opposition to
• Spanish: en vez de — in opposition to
• Swedish: mot — in opposition to
• Swedish: kontra — in opposition to
• Tibetan: ཁ་གཏད་དུ (kha gtad du) — in opposition to
• Tibetan: འགལ་ཟླར ('gal zlar) — in opposition to
• Urdu: بمقابلہ (bamuqābila) — in opposition to
• Vietnamese: đối — in opposition to
• Vietnamese: đối đầu — in opposition to
• Vietnamese: đấu với — in opposition to
• Vietnamese: kiện — in opposition to
• Arabic: عَلَى اَلْعَكْس (ʕalā l-ʕaks) — compared with
• Arabic: ضِِدَّ (ḍiidda) — compared with
• Bulgarian: в сравне́ние с (v sravnénie s) — compared with
• Catalan: en comparació amb — compared with
• Chinese Mandarin: 比......相對 /比......相对 — compared with
• Chinese Mandarin: 比......相对 (bǐ...xiāngduì) — compared with
• Chinese Mandarin: 比......相比之下 (bǐ...xiāngbǐ zhī xià) — compared with
• Chinese Mandarin: 與 /与 (yǔ) — compared with
• Chinese Mandarin: 和 (hé) — compared with
• Czech: srovnej s — compared with
• Danish: mod — compared with
• Danish: over for — compared with
• Esperanto: kontraŭ — compared with
• Finnish: verrattuna siihen, että — compared with
• Finnish: versus — compared with
• Georgian: შედარებით (šedarebit) — compared with
• German: gegenüber — compared with
• German: vergleiche — compared with
• German: vgl. — compared with
• German: siehe auch — compared with
• Greek: rest — compared with
• Hebrew: לעומת (leʿumát) — compared with
• Hungarian: (ezzel) szemben — compared with
• Hungarian: szemben azzal — compared with
• Hungarian: ha — compared with
• Hungarian: hogy... — compared with
• Korean: 비하다 (bihada) — compared with
• Latvian: salīdzinot ar — compared with
• Polish: a — compared with
• Portuguese: contra — compared with
• Russian: в сравне́нии с (v sravnénii s) — compared with
• Russian: по сравне́нию с (po sravnéniju s) — compared with
• Swedish: mot — compared with
• Swedish: jämfört — compared with
• Tibetan: གཞན་ལས (gzhan las) — compared with
• Urdu: مقابلہ (bamuqābila) — compared with
• Vietnamese: và — compared with