Virginia

American  

[ver-jin-yuh] / vərˈdʒɪn jə /

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.

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Virginia ¹ British  

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

noun

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

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Virginia ² British  

/ 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)

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Virginia Cultural  

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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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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Virginia

This enchantment was captured by a 24-year-old Virginia Woolf, who visited an English fen and its surroundings in 1906, and described the area as a “strange, gray-green, undulating, dreaming, philosophizing and remembering land.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the United States, at least 16 factories processed fishmeal as of 2025, along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Louisiana, and in California, Oregon and Alaska.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Law enforcement seized 298 gold bars and $2 million in cash in the May raid on Rush's home in Virginia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 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

Secretary of State James Monroe, another slaveholder and former governor of Virginia, is elected the fifth president.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis