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W. Va.

British  

abbreviation

  1. West Virginia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He was born on Sept. 11, 1921 to Lebanese immigrant parents and raised in Beckley, W. Va., a coal town where his father worked as a storekeeper and miner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Snow falling above 3,000 feet at Va - W. Va. border...

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022

The incident took place Saturday around 3:30 p.m. at the Tampico Mexican Restaurant’s Parkersburg, W. Va., location.

From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2019

Owens L. Brown, the president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in Wheeling, W. Va., across the river from Bellaire, said he was not surprised that a police department in the area would hire Officer Loehmann.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2018

Charleston, W. Va. R E Flect Answers will appear in our next issue solvers in six weeks.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by James Elverson

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