WEST VIRGINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Virginia mean? 

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

1. a state in east central United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST VIRGINIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in east central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Mountain State; W.V.; West Virginia; WV

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "West Virginia"):

Beckley (a city in southern West Virginia)

capital of West Virginia; Charleston (state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river)

Clarksburg (a city in northern West Virginia)

Fayetteville (a town in central West Virginia on the New River)

Huntington (a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha)

Harper's Ferry; Harpers Ferry (a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there)

Morgantown (a city in northern West Virginia on the Monongahela river near the Pennsylvania border; site of the University of West Virginia)

Parkersburg (a city in northwestern West Virginia on the Ohio river)

Wheeling (a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river)

Alleghenies; Allegheny Mountains (the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia)

Kanawha; Kanawha River (a tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia)

Monongahela; Monongahela River (a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River)

Potomac; Potomac River (a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay)

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

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

Breakthrough Listen used instruments at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to observe that location over 5 hours on Saturday, detecting 15 bursts over the entire 4 to 8 GHz frequency band.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a recent study of adults with early memory loss, scientists from West Virginia University found that practice of a simple meditation or music listening program may have multiple benefits for older adults with preclinical memory loss.

(Meditation, Music May Help Reverse Early Memory Loss in Adults, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)