Old Dominion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Official nickname for Virginia: a state of the United States; originally the nickname given by Charles II of England to the Colony of Virginia.

Word forms

Old Dominion

Etymology

Perhaps from the former designation of the colony as the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.

Related words

Colony and Dominion of Virginia [c. 1700]
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