English noun: VA |
| 1. | VA (location) a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War |
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| Synonyms | Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, Virginia |
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| Instance hypernym | American state |
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| Part holonym | Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains, Blacksburg, Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Bull Run, capital of Virginia, Chancellorsville, Chesapeake Bay, Clinch River, Elizabeth River, Fredericksburg, Hampton Roads, James, James River, Jamestown, Lynchburg, Mount Vernon, Newport News, Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth, Potomac, Potomac River, Rappahannock, Rappahannock River, Richmond, Roanoke, Shenandoah National Park, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Spotsylvania, Virginia Beach, Yorktown |
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| Part meronym | America, South, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA |
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| Member meronym | Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South |
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| Domain region members | Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Fredericksburg, battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign, siege of Yorktown, Spotsylvania, Wilderness, Wilderness Campaign, Yorktown |
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| 2. | VA (group) the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989 |
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| Synonyms | Department of Veterans Affairs |
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| Broader (hypernym) | executive department |
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