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Vry

Vry is the variant of Uriah.

Meaning of Uriah

Proper noun

Uriah

  1. Any of a number of Old Testament men.
    1. The husband of Bathsheba whom David sent to death.
      • And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 11:15
  2. (rather rare) A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.
    • but the thing that struck me most, was, that with the evidences of his native superiority still upon him, he should submit himself to that crawling impersonation of meanness, Uriah Heep.1869, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter XXXV

Questions about Vry

What is Vry the variant of?
Vry is the variant of Uriah.

Words near Vry in the dictionary

  1. VRU
  2. Vrubel
  3. vrulja
  4. VRUs
  5. Vrutok
  6. Vry
  7. Vryburg
  8. vrykolaka
  9. vrykolakas
  10. Vrystater
  11. Vrystaters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Vry (page history and authors); Uriah (page history and authors). 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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