east virginia
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A hypothetical U.S. state that would be east of and analogous to West Virginia.
Example Sentences
- "While she will want to convince the judge that the court has jurisdiction because no other state has jurisdiction under the jurisdictional tests of the UCCJEA or the UCCJA, whichever happens to be the applicable custody jurisdiction statute of the state of East Virginia, this should fail if she is candid with the court about the previous physical residence of the children in Germany; surely Germany would be considered the children's "home state.""
- "Question 1: The State Occupational Health and Safety Board of East Virginia recently issued regulations valid under its statutory mandate requiring that all employers in the state provide ionizing air purification systems for all employee work."
- "OK. So I lied. This is really about West Virginia:"
- "But Prince has come to the state of East Virginia, where Ladonna owns additional real property."
- "I, unfortunately, do say stupid things... a lot. I'll never live down asking where East Virginia was. Hey, there is a West Virginia so why isn't there an East Virginia!"
- "Sorry. I do compose electronic music (more toward ambient or trance) here in East Virginia."
Etymology
From the analogy with West Virginia.