(n)a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War, Syn.Old Dominion, VA, Old Dominion State
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. Virginia; -- a name of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as “the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]