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Valencia
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proper noun (wikipedia, Valencia (autonomous community))
Community of Valencia
  1. A country of SW Europe, located in the Eastern Iberia, Iberian Peninsula. Today an autonomous community of Spain. Official name: Valencian Community (Comunitat Valenciana, Comunidad Valenciana). Area: 23,255 sq. km. Population (2004): 4,692,449. Historically, a kingdom also including the town of Caudete.
    1. City and capital of the Community of Valencia (Spain).
  2. City in northern Venezuela.
Valentine
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proper noun
  1. An English and Scottish surname derived from the medieval given name Valentinus
  1. (given name, male, from Latin, )
    1. w:Saint Valentine, Saint Valentine
Vancouver
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proper noun
  1. A family name.
  2. A large island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
  3. A large city and seaport in British Columbia, Canada
  4. A city in the State of Washington, USA.
  5. A mountain between Alaska and Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
vane
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noun
  1. (countable) A weather vane.
  2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a w:turbine, turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
  3. The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
  4. A sight on a w:sextant, sextant or compass.
  5. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
Varese
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proper noun
  1. Province of Lombardy, Italy.
  2. Capital of the province of Varese.
Vega
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proper noun
  1. (star) The brightest star in the constellation Lyra; Alpha (α) Lyrae. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.
vernier
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noun
  1. A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measure, measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.
Vernon
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proper noun
  1. A surname.
  2. (given name, male) , transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
Victoria
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, from Latin, )
  2. A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially w:Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).
  3. One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
    1. The capital of Seychelles
  4. provincial, Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
  5. Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
  6. Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa
villa
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noun
  1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
  2. (UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
  3. In ancient Rome, a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
Vincent
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
Virgil
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proper noun
  1. PÅ«blius Vergilius MarÅ (70-19 B.C.), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
  2. (context, mostly, US) (given name, male).
Vogel
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proper noun
  1. a lunar crater, named after Hermann Carl Vogel
volta
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noun
  1. A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated.
voltaic
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adjective
  1. of, or related to electricity; galvanic
  2. producing electricity by chemical action
Voltaire
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proper noun
  1. pen name of the French philosopher Franí§ois-Marie Arouet
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