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Nova

proper nounnounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A female given name from Latin.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Latin.

    Did you notice the dog which in the winter sports scenes is clasped in the arms of the child-star, Nova Pilbeam?

    He murmurs to himself, "Her body is twenty-two, but she is in the infancy of a second life. I will call her Nova, the New One."

Etymology

From Latin nova (“new”).

noun

  1. 1

    Smoked Nova Scotia salmon.

Etymology

Clipping of Nova Scotia.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of NoVAAlternative letter-case form of NoVA.

Etymology

Abbreviation of Northern Virginia.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).