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

In the rugged Appalachian hills of West Virginia, five hours west of the nation’s capital, fierce community bonds and family ties define life.

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They are both uniformed members of the West Virginia National Guard, Pirro said.

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Families, friends and neighbors in West Virginia are rallying around two members of their state’s National Guard, who were shot while working in Washington, D.C., over Thanksgiving.

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Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.

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A few days before Thanksgiving, members of the West Virginia National Guard filmed cheerful videos about what they would miss while deployed to the nation’s capital over the holidays.

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