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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 ( def ).
  4. a female given name: from a Roman family name.


Virginia

1

/ əˈɪɪə /

noun

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

Virginia

2

/ əˈɪɪə /

noun

  1. 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) AbbreviationVawith zip codeVA
“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

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.
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Notes

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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"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," her family said in a statement, confirming her death by suicide.

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A former four-star recruit, Rice started his college career at Virginia Tech, where he only played in eight games due to injury.

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The Derby golfer played in four Solheim Cups - winning two - before serving as a vice-captain in last year's defeat in Virginia.

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District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a ruling that Google illegally maintained and acquired a monopoly in two markets for advertising technology — publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges.

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Over the last few decades, blue-collar communities from Michigan to West Virginia have been hollowed out by the mass decline of American manufacturing, from steel to automobiles.

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