virginia

Definition of virginia in English English dictionary: A female given name
She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.; A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach; {n} one of the United States of America; A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond; {i} state on the eastern coast of the United States; female first name; given name, female, from Latin; State (pop., 2000: 7,078,515), eastern U.S. It is bordered by Maryland to the northeast, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky to the west, West Virginia to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Located on the central Atlantic seaboard, it covers an area of 40,767 sq mi (105,586 sq km); its capital is Richmond. The coastal plain, also known as the Tidewater, lies in the east; the Piedmont province, a region of rolling hills, is in the middle of the state; and the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains lie to the west. The Potomac, Shenandoah, James, and Roanoke rivers flow through the state. Virginia was inhabited by American Indians when futile attempts were made by English navigator Sir Walter Raleigh to found settlements (1584-87). Britain's first American colony was founded there in 1607 at Jamestown. On the eve of the American Revolution, Virginia was the largest of the 13 colonies and one of the first to resist the British Stamp Act. Its citizens were among the leaders of the Revolutionary period, and the state later contributed four of the country's first five presidents. In 1788 it became the 10th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was an important part of Virginia's economy; Nat Turner's slave insurrection occurred there in 1831. In 1861, soon after the start of the American Civil War, Virginia seceded from the Union. Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy (see Confederate States of America), and Virginia was the chief battleground throughout the war. The western part of the state refused to secede; it split off to become West Virginia in 1863. Virginia was readmitted to the Union in 1870. Strife over state debt took over political life for the next decades, but after World War I the state's prosperity increased. World War II brought thousands to its military camps and caused the Norfolk area to experience rapid growth. The federal government is Virginia's largest employer, while manufacturing is the second largest. Hampton Roads is one of the nation's leading ports. Tourism is important; Virginia's many historical sites include Colonial Williamsburg, George Washington's Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, the Civil War battlefields, and Gen. Robert E. Lee's house, located within the grounds of what is now Arlington National Cemetery. The College of William and Mary (founded 1693) is the country's second oldest college; the University of Virginia was largely the creation of Thomas Jefferson. Virginia Patterson Hensley Dare Virginia Martin Mary Virginia Masters William Howell and Johnson Virginia Eshelman Virginia Katherine McMath Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Virginia Beach Virginia Declaration of Rights Virginia University of West Virginia Virginia deer Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Woolf Adeline Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Virginia Wynette Pugh; General term for the many special varieties of tobacco originally grown in the US state of Virginia; Virginia is a state located on the eastern coast of the United States of America The state was one of the first regions of North America to be settled by European immigrants; a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War; Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia; On March 8, 1996, the Virginia State Bar Standing Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law adopted a resolution stating that a legal assistant working under direction of a member of the Virginia State Bar in conformance with the Standards and Guidelines would not be engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and that the employment or supervision by a Virginia State Bar member of legal assistants who conform to the Standards and Guidelines would be in the best interest of the public; a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War one of the British colonies that formed the United States; a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range; One of the States of the United States of America; one of the British colonies that formed the United States
Virginia Algonquian: The extinct Eastern Algonquian language of eastern Virginia
Virginia Apgar: {i} (1909-1974) United States physician who developed the Apgar score test (in 1952) to evaluate the physical state of newborns
Virginia Beach: An independent city of southeast Virginia on the Atlantic Ocean east of Norfolk. Mainly residential, it is a popular resort. Population: 393,069. City (pop., 2000: 425,257), southeastern Virginia. It is situated on the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay. Founded in 1887, it developed as a resort after a railroad was built linking it with Norfolk. After World War I it became an important base in the national coastal defense system. In 1963 it and the former Princess Anne county merged to become the City of Virginia Beach. Its economy is based on tourism and military installations. Cape Henry Memorial is in the city and the Cape Henry Lighthouse (1791) is nearby
Virginia Dare: born Aug. 18, 1587, Roanoke Island, Va. First child born to English parents in America. Her parents were among the 120 settlers who landed at Roanoke Island, Va., in 1587. Her grandfather, John White, was the colony's governor; he left to collect supplies in England nine days after her birth. A relief expedition that finally reached the colony in 1590 found only the word croatoan carved on a post; the infant Virginia had vanished along with all the other colonists
Virginia Declaration of Rights: Measure adopted by the colony of Virginia (June 12, 1776). Drafted by George Mason, it stated that "all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights" and specified such civil liberties as freedom of the press and freedom of religion. It became a model for the Bill of Rights
Virginia Eshelman Johnson: Masters and Johnson
Virginia McMath: {i} birth name of Ginger Rogers (1911-1995), Academy Award-winning USA singer dancer and actress
Virginia Woolf: a British writer and critic who was an important member of the Bloomsbury Group and is admired by feminists. Her novels, such as To the Lighthouse and The Waves, use the style called stream of consciousness (1882-1941). v. orig. Adeline Virginia Stephen born Jan. 25, 1882, London, Eng. died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex British novelist and critic. Daughter of Leslie Stephen, she and her sister became the early nucleus of the Bloomsbury group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912; in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. Her best novels including Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) are experimental; in them she examines the human experience of time, the indefinability of character, and external circumstances as they impinge on consciousness. Orlando (1928) is a historical fantasy about a single character who experiences England from the Elizabethan era to the early 20th century, and The Waves (1931), perhaps her most radically experimental work, uses interior monologue and recurring images to trace the inner lives of six characters. Such works confirmed her place among the major figures of literary modernism. Her best critical studies are collected in The Common Reader (1925, 1932). Her long essay A Room of One's Own (1929) addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. Her other novels include Jacob's Room (1922), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). She also wrote a biography of Roger Fry. Her health and mental stability were delicate throughout her life; in a recurrence of mental illness, she drowned herself. Her diaries and correspondence have been published in several editions
Virginia Woolf: {i} (1882-1941) English 20th century author and literary critic
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: (1788-89) Measures passed by the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky as a protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts. Drafted by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson (though their role went unknown for 25 years), the resolutions protested limitations on civil liberties and declared the right of states to decide on the constitutionality of federal legislation. Though their authors applied the resolutions to the specific issues of the day, Southern states later used the measures to support the theories of nullification and secession
Virginia cowslip: An eastern North American plant (Mertensia virginica) having clusters of showy, nodding blue flowers. Also called Virginia bluebell
Virginia creeper: A North American climbing vine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) having palmately compound leaves with five leaflets and bluish-black berries. Also called woodbine. a garden plant that grows up walls and has large leaves that turn deep red in autumn
Virginia ham: A lean hickory-smoked ham with dark red meat
Virginia rail: A small reddish-brown American rail (Rallus limicola) having a long, slender bill
Virginia reel: An American country-dance in which couples perform various steps together to the instructions of a caller
virginia beach: the largest city in Virginia; long overshadowed by Norfolk but growing rapidly since 1970; with 28 miles of public beaches tourism is a major factor in the economy; site of three United States Navy bases
virginia bluebell: smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud
virginia chain fern: North American fern
virginia creeper: common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
virginia crownbeard: tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States
virginia deer: common North American deer; tail has a white underside
virginia ham: a lean hickory-smoked ham; has dark red meat
virginia mallow: tall handsome perennial herb of southeastern United States having maplelike leaves and white flowers
virginia oyster: common edible oyster of Atlantic coast of North America
virginia reel: an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
virginia snakeroot: birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands
virginia spring beauty: small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
virginia strawberry: North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit; a source of many cultivated strawberries
virginia thimbleweed: thimbleweed of central and eastern North America
virginia waterleaf: showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States
West Virginia: A state of the United States of America. Capital and largest city: Charleston
Adeline Virginia Woolf: v. orig. Adeline Virginia Stephen born Jan. 25, 1882, London, Eng. died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex British novelist and critic. Daughter of Leslie Stephen, she and her sister became the early nucleus of the Bloomsbury group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912; in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. Her best novels including Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) are experimental; in them she examines the human experience of time, the indefinability of character, and external circumstances as they impinge on consciousness. Orlando (1928) is a historical fantasy about a single character who experiences England from the Elizabethan era to the early 20th century, and The Waves (1931), perhaps her most radically experimental work, uses interior monologue and recurring images to trace the inner lives of six characters. Such works confirmed her place among the major figures of literary modernism. Her best critical studies are collected in The Common Reader (1925, 1932). Her long essay A Room of One's Own (1929) addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. Her other novels include Jacob's Room (1922), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). She also wrote a biography of Roger Fry. Her health and mental stability were delicate throughout her life; in a recurrence of mental illness, she drowned herself. Her diaries and correspondence have been published in several editions
Mary Virginia Martin: v. born Dec. 1, 1913, Weatherford, Texas, U.S. died Nov. 3, 1990, Rancho Mirage, Calif. U.S. singer and actress. She co-owned a dancing school in her native Weatherford, Texas, before moving in 1938 to New York City, where she won a small part in the musical Leave It to Me and became famous for her rendition of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." She appeared in movies before returning to Broadway to star in One Touch of Venus (1943). Martin originated the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949-53) and later starred in Peter Pan (1954, Tony Award; television version, 1955), The Sound of Music (1959, Tony Award), and I Do, I Do (1966)
University of Virginia: v. U.S. public university founded in Charlottesville by Thomas Jefferson. It was chartered in 1819 and opened in 1825. Jefferson designed its beautiful campus and buildings, planned the curriculum, and selected the faculty. By the time of the Civil War, the university was second only to Harvard in size of faculty and student body. It first admitted women in 1970. In addition to its college of arts and sciences, it has schools of architecture, education, engineering and applied sciences, and nursing, as well as a business school, a graduate school, and schools of law and medicine
West Virginia: state in the eastern United States
West Virginia: A state of the east-central United States. It was admitted as the 35th state in 1863. West Virginia was part of Virginia until the area refused to endorse the ordinance of secession in 1861. Charleston is the capital and the largest city. Population: 1,801,625. West Virginian adj. & n. WV a state in the eastern central US, that has many mountains. Its capital and largest city is Charleston, and its industries include coal, steel, and farming. State (pop., 2000: 1,808,344), east-central U.S. It covers an area of 24,232 sq mi (62,760 sq km); its capital is Charleston. West Virginia is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north, Maryland and Virginia to the east, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. The Ohio River forms a large section of the upper western boundary, while the Potomac River forms a section of the northern boundary. The Great Kanawha, Little Kanawha, Monongahela, and Shenandoah rivers cross the state. West Virginia is crossed by the Appalachian Mountains and is generally rugged land. The highest elevation is Spruce Knob (4,861 ft [1,482 m]). Long occupied by Indian hunters, it was home to the Adena, or Mound Builders, who left archaeological traces. They were succeeded by the Iroquois and the Cherokee. The first permanent white settlement was in the 1730s. The English controlled the region during the 1750s and 1760s. Though eastern Virginia was rapidly settled, the western area's rugged terrain restricted settlement there. After the American Revolution, largely nonslaving settlers moved west; they grew dissatisfied with the Virginia government. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, residents from western Virginia voted against the ordinance of secession in 1861. In 1863 West Virginia was admitted to the Union as the 35th state. Its industrial emergence, encouraged by railroad expansion, began in the 1870s when its natural resources, including coal and gas, contributed to the growth of the U.S. In the 20th century, recreation and tourism became an increasingly important part of the state's economy
William H; and Johnson Virginia E Masters: born Dec. 27, 1915, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died Feb. 16, 2001, Tucson, Ariz. born Feb. 11, 1925, Springfield, Missouri, U.S. U.S. human-sexuality research team. Together (as physician and psychologist, respectively), they founded and codirected the Masters & Johnson Institute in St. Louis. They observed couples having sex under laboratory conditions, using biochemical equipment to record sexual stimulations and reactions. Their book Human Sexual Response (1966) was considered the first comprehensive study of the physiology and anatomy of human sexual activity (see sexual response). They were married in 1971 and continued to collaborate after their divorce in 1993
William Howell; and Johnson Virginia Eshelman Masters: born Dec. 27, 1915, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died Feb. 16, 2001, Tucson, Ariz. born Feb. 11, 1925, Springfield, Missouri, U.S. U.S. human-sexuality research team. Together (as physician and psychologist, respectively), they founded and codirected the Masters & Johnson Institute in St. Louis. They observed couples having sex under laboratory conditions, using biochemical equipment to record sexual stimulations and reactions. Their book Human Sexual Response (1966) was considered the first comprehensive study of the physiology and anatomy of human sexual activity (see sexual response). They were married in 1971 and continued to collaborate after their divorce in 1993
university of west virginia: a university in Morgantown, West Virginia
west virginia: a state in east central United States

virginia

Hyphenation

Vir·gin·ia

Turkish pronunciation

vırcînyı

Pronunciation

/vərˈʤənyə/ /vɜrˈʤɪnjə/

Etymology

() From Latin Virginia, feminine form of Virginius or Verginius, a Roman family name, possibly identical with Vergilius. The state was named for Elizabeth I as the Virgin Queen.