English Words Starting With V

• viet

  adjectivenounVery low frequency; primarily legal/technical jargon.
  /vʌɪˈɛt/To make a formal complaint or lodge a protest, often in a legal or official context.
• vietcong

  adjectivenounLow
  /ˌvjɛtˈkɒŋ/A member of the communist-led guerrilla force and revolutionary army that fought against the South Vietnamese government and its US allies during the Vietnam War.
• vietminh

  adjectivenounVery Low
  /vjɛtˈmɪn/The shortened name for the League for the Independence of Vietnam, a communist-led national independence coalition (1941–1951) that fought against French colonial rule and later the Japanese occupation during WWII.
• vietnam

  nounHigh
  /ˌvjɛtˈnæm/A country in Southeast Asia.
• vietnam war

  nounC1
  /ˌvjɛtˈnæm ˈwɔː/A major Cold War conflict from approximately 1955 to 1975, fought between North Vietnam (supported by communist allies) and South Vietnam (supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations).
• vietnamese

  adjectivenounC1
  /ˌvjet.nəˈmiːz/A person from Vietnam or the language spoken there.
• vietnamization

  nounVery Low
  /ˌvjɛtnəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/A US policy during the Vietnam War aimed at transferring the primary combat role and responsibility from American forces to South Vietnamese forces.
• vietnamize

  verb-transitiveVery low / Obscure
  /ˌvjɛtnəˈmaɪz/To make something characteristic of Vietnam, its culture, politics, or conditions; to subject to Vietnamese influence.
• vietor

  nounC1/C2
  /ˈvɪk.tə/The winner of a battle, contest, or competition.
• vieuxtemps

  nounVery low
  /ˌvjɜːˈtɒ̃/The proper noun referring to the Belgian violinist and composer Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881).
• view

  nounverbverb-transitiveA1
  /vjuː/The act of seeing or looking at something; a visual perception or observation.
• view camera

  nounC2
  /ˈvjuː ˌkæm(ə)rə/A large-format camera, typically with a flexible bellows, that allows the photographer to control perspective, focus, and plane of focus through tilts, swings, and shifts of the front and rear standards.
• view halloa

  nounC1
  /ˌvjuː həˈləʊ/A traditional hunting cry made by a hunter or spectator upon sighting a fox breaking cover.
• view halloo

  interjectionnounVery Low
  /ˌvjuː həˈluː/A shout, especially "halloo!", uttered by a hunter on seeing the fox break cover during a hunt.
• view mark

  nounC1/C2
  /ˈvjuː ˌmɑːk/A visible indicator or annotation, often digital, that notes the position where one stopped viewing or reading a document, video, or web page.
• viewdata

  nounC2
  /ˈvjuːˌdeɪtə/An early teletext or videotex system for retrieving and displaying text-based information pages via a telephone line, primarily in the UK.
• viewer

  nounB2
  /ˈvjuːə/A person who watches something, especially television, a video, or an exhibition.
• viewership

  nounC1
  /ˈvjuːəʃɪp/The collective group of people watching a particular television programme, channel, or event.
• viewfinder

  nounB1
  /ˈvjuːfaɪndə(r)/A small window or screen on a camera through which the user looks to see what will be captured in the photograph.
• viewing

  nounB2
  /ˈvjuːɪŋ/The act of watching or looking at something, typically with intention or for a specific purpose.

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