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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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    yorktown

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • a town in southeastern Virginia, USA
  • the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.