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Virgil

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈvɜːdʒɪl//
  • United States//ˈvɝdʒɪl//

Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.

  2. 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. 3

    A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States: A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.

  5. 5

    A place in the United States: A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.

  6. 6

    A place in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.

  7. 7

    A place in the United States: A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.

  8. 8

    A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.

Etymology

From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.

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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).