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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.

  4. a female given name: from a Roman family name.



Virginia

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/ əˈɪɪə /

noun

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

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Virginia

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/ əˈɪɪə /

noun

  1. Abbreviation: Va. VA.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: 7386330 (2003 est). Area: 103030 sq km (39780 sq miles)

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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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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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"I can easily see a future in which we don't get the Virginia class boats," Mr Roggeveen says, referring to the interim submarines.

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The family story is told through the lens of Charlie Trammell III, a World War II veteran emotionally scarred by the violence he witnessed on the battlefield and at home in Jim Crow Virginia.

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Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

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Law students at the University of Virginia Law School appealed her case to the Supreme Court.

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Later in the book, she discusses the uniquely queer and effective partnership of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

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