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• Virginian
  Virginian

  adjective

  of or relating to the state of Virginia.
• virginian
  virginian

  adjective

  of or relating to Virginia or its inhabitants

Virginian

American  

[ver-jin-yuhn] / vərˈdʒɪn jən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the state of Virginia.

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Virginia.

virginian British  

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Virginia or its inhabitants

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Virginia

Other Word Forms

• non-Virginian
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Virginian

First recorded in 1625–35; Virgini(a) + -an

Example Sentences

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Virginian virginian

Two years ago, she married a fellow Virginian she met hiking the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

At the Virginian, a dimly lit dive bar with dollar bills plastered to the wall, bartender Joshua Roche was pouring beers Thursday for a rowdy group that included one active-duty and two retired Marines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

“We’re the Wall Street of the data centre industry,” says Ms Bolthouse, who is a director of local Virginian charity and campaign group Piedmont Environmental Council.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2024

The former coach, a native West Virginian, is a longtime friend of retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and endorsed him in his 2018 reelection.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024

He was not a man to speak this way to a brother officer, a fellow Virginian; he shocked Stuart to silence with the iciness of his voice.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Among many others we may particularise the fragrant white-flowered alyssum, the blue, dark purple, spotted, and white varieties of nemophila, white and pink virginian stock, and the large yellow buttercup-like flowered limnanthes.

From Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various