versus

Etymology
From, borrowed from , past participle of.

Preposition

 * 1) Against; in opposition to.
 * 2) Compared with, as opposed to.
 * 3)  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).
 * 1) Compared with, as opposed to.
 * 2)  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).
 * 1)  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).
 * 1)  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).

Translations

 * Arabic: فِي مُقَابِل, ضِِدَّ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: су́праць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: en contra, enfront de
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 對
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: წინააღმდეგ
 * German:, im Gegensatz zu,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, móti
 * Ido:
 * Irish: in aghaidh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, バーサス
 * Khmer: ទល់នឹង
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian: versus
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, vérsus
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: nasprotiv,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, en vez de
 * Swedish:, kontra
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཁ་གཏད་དུ, འགལ་ཟླར
 * Urdu: بمقابلہ
 * Vietnamese:, , đấu với


 * Arabic: عَلَى اَلْعَكْس, ضِِدَّ
 * Bulgarian: в сравне́ние с
 * Catalan: en comparació amb
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 比……相對, 比……相对, 比……相比之下, ,
 * Czech: srovnej s
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: შედარებით
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: see:
 * Hebrew: לעומת
 * Hungarian:
 * Latvian: salīdzinot ar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: в сравне́нии с,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tibetan: གཞན་ལས
 * Urdu: مقابلہ
 * Vietnamese:

Preposition

 * 1) versus

Etymology
From. .

Etymology
., which is inherited.

Etymology 1
From earlier, from , perfect passive participle of.

Participle

 * 1) turned, changed, having been turned

Etymology 2
Adverbial use of.

Adverb

 * 1)  towards, turned to or in the direction of, facing

Etymology 3
Action noun from +.

Noun

 * 1) a furrow (turned earth)
 * 2)  a line, row
 * 3)   a line of writing, a verse
 * 4) a land measure (= )
 * 5)  a turn, step
 * 1)  a turn, step
 * 1)  a turn, step

Etymology 4
Perfect passive participle of.

Participle

 * 1) swept

Etymology
.

Etymology
, from. .

Preposition

 * 1) versus

Usage notes

 * This word is sometimes frowned upon as an anglicism, with the suggestion that or the conjunction  should be used instead.