virginia

Other forms of virginia

plural

virginias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about virginia

What does virginia mean?

virginia means "a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in virginia?

virginia has 3 syllables: vir-gin-ia. The stress falls on "gin". In IPA it is /vɚˈdʒɪnjə/.

What is another word for virginia?

Close synonyms include Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA, Va.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is virginia a common word?

virginia is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.