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virginia | dayton |

As proper nouns the difference between virginia and dayton

is that virginia is virginia (us state) while dayton is .

virginia

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach.
  • (astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
  • .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
  • "Daughter," quoth he, "Virginia by thy name, / There be two wayes, either death or shame, / That thou must suffer, - alas that I was bore!
  • * 1840 (Frederick Marryat), Poor Jack , Chapter III,
  • Here, in due time, she was brought to bed of a daughter, whom she christened by the name of Virginia ; not so much out of respect to her last mistress, who bore that name, as because she considered it peculiarly ladylike and genteel.
  • * 1854 , The Western Home, and Other Poems , Parry & McMillan, 1854, page 87 ,
  • O sweet Virginia Dare! / Thou art the lily of our love, / The forest's sylph-like queen, / The first-born bud from Saxon stem / That this New World hath seen!
  • * 1956 (Charlotte Armstrong), A Dram of Poison , Coward-McCann, pages 164-165:
  • She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.

    Derived terms

    * VA * Virginia cowslip * Virginia creeper * Virginia fence * Virginian * Virginia nightingale * Virginia quail * Virginia reel * Virginia stock * West Virginia

    See also

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    dayton

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (surname)
  • A community in Nova Scotia.
  • A town in Alabama.
  • A city in Idaho.
  • A town in Indiana.
  • A city in Iowa
  • A city in Kentucky.
  • A town in Maine
  • A city in Minnesota
  • A town in New York
  • A city in Ohio, United States
  • A city in Tennessee
  • A city in Texas
  • A town in Virginia
  • A city in Washington
  • A town in Wyoming
  • An English surname, variant of Deighton
  • (Jonathan Dayton) (1760-1824), an early American politician