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Virginia

[ ver-jin-yuh ]

noun

  1. a state in the eastern United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 square miles (105,710 square kilometers). : Richmond. : VA (for use with zip code), Va.
  2. a town in northeastern Minnesota.
  3. (italics) Merrimac ( def ).
  4. a female given name: from a Roman family name.


Virginia

1

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

noun

  1. a state of the eastern US, on the Atlantic: site of the first permanent English settlement in North America; consists of a low-lying deeply indented coast rising inland to the Piedmont plateau and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Capital: Richmond. Pop: 7 386 330 (2003 est). Area: 103 030 sq km (39 780 sq miles) AbbreviationVawith zip codeVA


Virginia

2

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

noun

  1. sometimes not capital a type of flue-cured tobacco grown originally in Virginia

Virginia

  1. State in the eastern United States bordered by West Virginia and Maryland to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and Kentucky to the west. Its capital is Richmond , and its largest city is Virginia Beach.


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Notes

One of the thirteen colonies . The first permanent English settlement in North America was at Jamestown , founded in the early seventeenth century.
Named for Queen Elizabeth I , the “Virgin Queen.”
One of the Confederate states during the Civil War .

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Example Sentences

Even though clerks in Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and other states have been doing exactly that.

I first saw Marvin when I was ten years old, living with my parents in Arlington, Virginia.

The former Virginia governor was once the golden boy of the GOP.

I was a part of this tour, debating Meyer in Richmond, Virginia in April.

Further, in the Super Tuesday states of Florida, Texas, and Virginia, Paul is operating at a decided disadvantage.

He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.

Then follows an account of the life of the Jesuit prisoners, in Virginia and England.

The pipe has a modern look and is altogether unlike those found by the English in use among the Indians in Virginia.

In 1622 a monopoly of the importation of tobacco was granted to the Virginia and Somers Island, companies.

Virginia leaf still continues to flourish, and to-day it is the great agricultural product of the State.

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