West Virginia

American  

noun

1. a state in the eastern United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Charleston. WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.

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West Virginia British  

noun

1. Abbreviation: W Va, W. Va., WV. a state of the eastern US: part of Virginia until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861); consists chiefly of the Allegheny Plateau; bounded on the west by the Ohio River; coal-mining. Capital: Charleston. Pop: 1 810 354 (2003 est). Area: 62 341 sq km (24 070 sq miles)

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West Virginia Cultural  

1. State in the southeastern United States bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the north, Virginia to the east and south, and Kentucky and Ohio to the west. Its capital and largest city is Charleston.

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Ranks first in bituminous coal production, with about twenty percent of the nation's total.

Separated from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861; it was granted statehood in 1863, during the Civil War.

Other Word Forms

• West Virginian
  adjective

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West Virginia

The biggest specimen belonged to a Tennessee bottlebrush crayfish preserved in the collection at West Liberty University in West Virginia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

ANN SIOCHI, a West Virginia resident, still plans on visiting Aspen next summer, during the closure, though she’ll be driving almost four hours from Denver International Airport to get there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

New private schools all go through Dustin Lambert, a manager in the Office of Student Enrichment and Support at the West Virginia Department of Education.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The 10 places with the highest rate of older workers were Nebraska, Maine, Alaska, West Virginia, Hawaii, New Mexico, New Hampshire, your home state of Tennessee, Nevada and Washington, D.C., the study found.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Built in 1891, the West Virginia Colored Institute provided hope to many of our state’s Negro citizens as we fought to obtain an education.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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