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vera

/ˈvɪəɹə/US/ˈvɪɹə/

vera noun: a skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).

Noun (1)

vera (plural veras)

  1. (Cockney, slang) A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
    • Has anybody got any veras? Lovely!1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)

Noun (2)

vera (uncountable)

  1. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the risk-free interest rate, or equivalently the rate of change of rho with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
    Synonyms:
    rhova

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Vera

UK/ˈvɪə.ɹə/

Vera

  1. A female given name from Russian.
    • Good night, my Vera. Mind, I shall always call you Vera. It sounds so Russian and nice, and is much prettier than Vere.1880, Ouida, Moths, Elibron.com, published 2001, →ISBN, page 51
    • I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.1953 Eric Linklater, The House of Gair, J.Cape, page 214

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Vera

Vera

  1. A surname from Spanish.

vera meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

vera in Hindi

वेरा

vera in Tamil

தொலைக்காட்சிப் பதிவுக்கருவி

vera in Marathi

वेरा, व्हेरा

vera in Urdu

ویرا
More languagesFewer languages
vera in Bengali
ভেরা
vera in Telugu
వెరా, వేరా
vera in Malayalam
സത്യസന്ധത, സത്യഭാഷിത്വം, ഒരു കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ പ്രോഗ്രാമിങ് ഭാഷ
vera in Kannada
ವೆರಾ, ವೇರಾ
vera in Odia
ଭେରା
vera in Nepali
वेरा

Synonyms of vera

Forms of vera

pluralveras

Origin of vera

From Vera Lynn.

As vega, with the "g" substituted with a "r" to represent risk-free (interest rate).

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from the Russian virtue name Ве́ра (Véra, “faith”). By folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera (“true”).

Words formed from vera

Phrases with vera

Words that rhyme with vera

Questions about vera

What does vera mean?
Vera means a skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
What is vera in Hindi?
Vera in Hindi is वेरा. See Vera meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is vera?
Vera can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vera?
Vera is pronounced /ˈvɪəɹə/ (UK).
What is the plural of vera?
The plural of vera is veras.

Words near vera in the dictionary

  1. Vepsian
  2. Vepsians
  3. Vepsish
  4. ver
  5. ver.
  6. vera
  7. vera causa
  8. Vera Cruz
  9. Vera Cruz jalap
  10. Vera Cruz jalaps
  11. veracious

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vera (page history and authors); Vera (page history and authors); vera (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vera (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vera (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vera (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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