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proper noun (wikipedia, Valencia (autonomous community))
Community of Valencia
- 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.
- City and capital of the Community of Valencia (Spain).
- City in northern Venezuela.
| | | Valentine |
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proper noun
- An English and Scottish surname derived from the medieval given name Valentinus
- (given name, male, from Latin, )
- w:Saint Valentine, Saint Valentine
| | Vancouver |
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proper noun
- A family name.
- A large island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
- A large city and seaport in British Columbia, Canada
- A city in the State of Washington, USA.
- A mountain between Alaska and Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
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noun
- (countable) A weather vane.
- 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.
- The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
- A sight on a w:sextant, sextant or compass.
- 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
- Province of Lombardy, Italy.
- Capital of the province of Varese.
| | Vega |
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proper noun
- (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
- 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
- A surname.
- (given name, male) , transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
| | Victoria |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, from Latin, )
- A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially w:Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).
- One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
- The capital of Seychelles
- provincial, Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
- Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
- Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa
| | villa |
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noun
- A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
- (UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
- In ancient Rome, a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
| | Vincent |
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proper noun
- (given name, male).
| | Virgil |
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proper noun
- Pūblius Vergilius Mar� (70-19 B.C.), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
- (context, mostly, US) (given name, male).
| | Vogel |
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proper noun
- a lunar crater, named after Hermann Carl Vogel
| | volta |
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noun - A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated.
| | voltaic |
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adjective
- of, or related to electricity; galvanic
- producing electricity by chemical action
| | Voltaire |
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proper noun
- pen name of the French philosopher Franí§ois-Marie Arouet
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