diff --git a/types/semver/index.d.ts b/types/semver/index.d.ts
index 725e6d523f..c4182683f5 100644
--- a/types/semver/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/semver/index.d.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 // Type definitions for semver 5.3
 // Project: https://github.com/npm/node-semver
 // Definitions by: Bart van der Schoor <https://github.com/Bartvds>
+//                 Lucian Buzzo <https://github.com/LucianBuzzo>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/semver
 
 export const SEMVER_SPEC_VERSION: "2.0.0";
 
 export type ReleaseType = "major" | "premajor" | "minor" | "preminor" | "patch" | "prepatch" | "prerelease";
 
+/**
+ * Return the parsed version as a SemVer object, or null if it's not valid.
+ */
+export function parse(version: string, loose?: boolean): SemVer | null;
+
 /**
  * Return the parsed version, or null if it's not valid.
  */
diff --git a/types/semver/semver-tests.ts b/types/semver/semver-tests.ts
index 039e70f023..4be0a8c526 100644
--- a/types/semver/semver-tests.ts
+++ b/types/semver/semver-tests.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ let v2: string;
 let version: string;
 let versions: string[];
 let loose: boolean;
+let SemVerObject: semver.SemVer;
+
+SemVerObject = semver.parse(str);
 
 str = semver.valid(str);
 str = semver.clean(str);