VIRGINIA BEACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Virginia Beach mean? 

• VIRGINIA BEACH (noun)
  The noun VIRGINIA BEACH has 1 sense:

1. the largest city in Virginia; long overshadowed by Norfolk but growing rapidly since 1970; with 28 miles of public beaches tourism is a major factor in the economy; site of three United States Navy bases

  Familiarity information: VIRGINIA BEACH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRGINIA BEACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Virginia; long overshadowed by Norfolk but growing rapidly since 1970; with 28 miles of public beaches tourism is a major factor in the economy; site of three United States Navy bases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Virginia Beach" is a part of...):

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)