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Versant

//ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Experienced, practiced. archaic

    "I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but, […]"

  2. 2
    Conversant.

    "This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it."

Noun
  1. 1
    A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.
  2. 2
    the side or slope of a mountain wordnet
  3. 3
    The overall slope of a region.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).

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