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v.
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abbreviation
  1. versus
Val
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male, from Latin, ) Short form of the male given name Valentine
  2. (given name, female, ) Short form of the female given name Valerie.
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
Valerie
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, ), borrowed from the form of Valeria.
    Cos since i've come home, well my body's been a mess
    And i've missed your ginger hair and the way you dress
    Won't you come on over stop making a fool out of me
    Why won't you come on over Valerie? Valerie? Valerie? Valerie?... - w:Zutons, Zutons - http://www.lyricsbox.com/zutons-the-lyrics-valerie-fcrxzdp.html Valerie
Van
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proper noun
  1. a male given name, diminutive of Vance or Ivan
Vance
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male)
Vanessa
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proper noun
  1. A female given name.
Vaughn
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proper noun
  1. a male or female given name, variant of Vaughan
  2. a city in Montana, New Mexico, and Washington
Venetia
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female) of debated meaning used since the late Middle Ages.
Vera
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female).
  2. A Spanish surname.
Vernon
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proper noun
  1. A surname.
  2. (given name, male) , transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
veronica
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noun
  1. The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
    • 1973, Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta:
    • :A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (") The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador " the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull"s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.
      1. A devotional image of Jesus's face.
    • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
    • :He wiped the lady"s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
      1. (context, bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
    • :The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
      1. (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:
    • :meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue you could shelter from the rain under
Vesta
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proper noun
  1. the Roman equivalent of the Greek Hestia
Vicky
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proper noun
  1. A female given name, shortened form of Victoria
VIN
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initialism
  1. Vehicle Identification Number
Vince
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proper noun
  1. Short form of the male given name Vincent.
Vincent
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
Viola
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female), from Latin "violet"
Violet
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female) from the English noun violet
Virgil
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proper noun
  1. Pūblius Vergilius MarŠ(70-19 B.C.), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
  2. (context, mostly, US) (given name, male).
Virginia
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proper noun (wikipedia, Virginia, Virginia (US State))
  1. A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond.
  2. (given name, female, from Latin, ) .
vita
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noun (vitae)
  1. a curriculum vitae
Vivian
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male)
  2. (given name, female)
Vladimir
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proper noun
  1. a male given name of Slavic derivation; short forms: Vlad.
  2. a city in Russia (see the w:Vladimir, Wikipedia article)

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