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Old Dominion en · PROPN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.
    • Attracted by better soils, cheap and properly surveyed land, and easier access to markets, hundreds of thousands fled Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century, causing the Old Dominion to cease to be the most populous state in the Union. 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

Relateds

Colony and Dominion of Virginia [c. 1700]