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.

4. a female given name: from a Roman family name.

Virginia

¹

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

noun

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

Virginia

²

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Va.  VA. 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)

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.

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.

Example Sentences

Many parts of the Southeast also saw record high average temperatures, with much of Virginia two to three degrees warmer than normal in July.

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Of the nine universities sent the compact, four currently don’t require a test score: Vanderbilt, USC, the University of Arizona and the University of Virginia.

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Schools that garnered top scores for learning environment included Babson, Washington and Lee University and Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and Brigham Young University in Utah.

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The flight headed to Virginia had 28 passengers, not counting flight attendants and pilots, while the flight arriving from North Carolina had 57.

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Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio and Virginia each would lose more than $1 billion in awards.

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