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virgil
UK /ˈvɜːdʒɪl/ US /ˈvɝdʒɪl/
name 5noun 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, last, youngest
VERB + VIRGIL
age, called, knew, named, point, stroke
VIRGIL + NOUN
company, homer, loucks, minnesota
PREP.
in
ADV.
maybe
Definitions
name
1
Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
2
A male given name from Latin.
A wedding dance at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last of the Virgil line).
3
A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
4
A place in the United States:
5
A place in the United States:
noun
1
Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.
No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a Roman poet
- vergil
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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A wedding dance at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last of the Virgil line).
Wiktionary02
There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and the
Wiktionary03
No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma.
Wiktionary04
Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and int
Wiktionary05
When I was your age, I knew Virgil and all the others by heart.
Tatoeba · #48011106
At your age, I knew Virgil and company by heart.
Tatoeba · #8261261Usage Notes
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