Virginian
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Virginian
First recorded in 1625–35; Virgini(a) + -an
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Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
“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
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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
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