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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

Take the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which energy giants Dominion and Duke proposed in 2014 to transport West Virginian shale gas to the Southeast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

“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

“It is important that we resolve these issues as soon as reasonably practical as Governor Youngkin believes that every eligible Virginian should exercise his or her right to vote,” Goettman added.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

“The true policy of the Southern members,” he explained to a fellow Virginian, “was to let the affair proceed with as little noise as possible.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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