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

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

noun

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

Virginia

²

/ vəˈdʒɪnɪə /

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

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.

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 .

Example Sentences

West Virginia, for example, has the highest opioid death rate but its homeless population is a fraction of California’s, even when accounting for its small population.

From Los Angeles Times

The hurricane caused massive flooding and damage as it moved through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

From NewsForKids.net

Burbank police detectives say it wasn’t the first time that Amanda Leeann Porter, 44, of Virginia, pretended to be a nurse.

From Los Angeles Times

Bluesky provided a status notice from Cogent Communications that said some customers using part of its network located between Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia, had temporarily lost connectivity.

From BBC

In January, I drove through an affluent community of country roads, hobby farms and sprawling hilly yards outside of Fairfax, Virginia, to the home of Jared Taylor.

From Salon