User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology 1
Borrowed in the nineteenth century from the virtue name Вера. By folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera.Proper noun
- A given name.
Translations
female given name
- Danish: Vera
- Finnish: Veera
- German: Vera
- Japanese: ヴェラ (Vera)
- Norwegian: Vera
- Russian: Вера
- Swedish: Vera
Etymology 2
FromDanish
Proper noun
- A given name, cognate to English Vera.
German
Proper noun
- A given name, cognate to English Vera.
Icelandic
Proper noun
- A given name, cognate to English Vera.
Norwegian
Proper noun
- A given name, cognate to English Vera.
Swedish
Proper noun
- A given name, cognate to English Vera.
Extensive Definition
Vera may mean:
A place:
- Vera, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Vera, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Vera Department, Argentina
- Vera, Almería, Spain
A work of art:
- Vera, a film based on an autobiographical book by Brazilian Sandra Mara Herzer
- Vera, a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Vera; or, The Nihilists, a play by Oscar Wilde
- "Vera", a song on the Pink Floyd album The Wall
A person:
- Augusto Vera (1813-1885), Italian philosopher
- Brandon Vera, a professional mixed martial arts fighter
- Heidi Puurula (Vera), member of Finnish band Aikakone
- Peter Vera, Uruguayan football (soccer) player
- Ricardo Vera, Uruguayan long-distance runner
- Rolando Vera, Ecuadorian long-distance runner
- Yvonne Vera (1964–2005), Zimbabwean writer
- Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
- Vera Brittain (1893-1970), English writer
- Vera-Ellen, American actress
- Vera Lynn, English singer
- Vera Farmiga, American actress
- Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress
- Vera Nikolić, Serbian track and field athlete
- Vera Schmidt, Hungarian singer-songwriter
- Vera Wang, New York-based fashion designer
- Vera, of Spanish Origin meaning of truth or light
In computing:
- OpenVera, a hardware verification language
Other uses:
- The Vera Companies a fashion brand owned by Manhattan Industries not to be confused with Vera Wang.
- VERA videotape format (Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus), an early videotape format
- VERA, a Czech passive sensor system
- Vera (horse), winner of the 1883 Kentucky Oaks
- 245 Vera, an asteroid
- Bitstream Vera, a family of typefaces
- Bulnesia sarmientoi, a tree species native to the Gran Chaco area in South America
- The female yellow monster Vera, a character on Barrio Sésamo
- The archbishop of Tarragona, Vera, ca. 693, who assisted personally to the Sixteenth (693) and Seventeenth (694) Councils of Toledo
- "Vera" is the name of fictional character Jayne Cobb's favorite gun.
- The Vera Project, an all ages music-based, non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington
- The Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, a particle accelerator dedicated to Accelerator mass spectrometry.
Vera in German: Vera
Vera in Spanish: Vera
Vera in French: Vera
Vera in Dutch: Vera
Vera in Norwegian: Vera (andre
betydninger)
Vera in Portuguese: Vera
Vera in Slovak: Viera
Vera in Finnish: Vera (täsmennyssivu)
Vera in Volapük: Vera