Definition of V:

• the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet
• V, the twenty- second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while is better adapted for engraving, as in stone.
• As a numeral, stands for five, in English and Latin.
• 1. Abbreviation for vision or visual acuteness. The acuteness of vision is indicated by a fraction in which the numerator is a number expressing the distance in feet of the observer from the chart ( usually 20 feet), and the denominator a number expressing the distance in feet at which the normal eye would see the smallest letters which the patient sees at the distance at which he is; thus, if at 20 feet he sees only the letters which the normal eye would see at 50 feet, the formula of his vision will be V. = 20/ 50 2. Chemical symbol for vanadium.
• Twenty- second letter of the alphabet. As a Roman numeral it stands for five; after a proper name, for the fifth, as Charles V.
• Is the twenty- second letter of the alphabet, and a labial articulation, formed by the junction of the upper teeth with the lower lip, as in pronouncing av, ev, ov, vain. It is nearly allied to f, being formed by the same organs; but v is vocal, and f is aspirate. As a Roman numeral, v stands for 5, and with a dash over it for 5, 000.
• V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference see U. The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant about like English w and as a vowel. The Latin derives it from it from a form V of the Greek vowel / see Y, this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F see F, or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they took from the Semitic. Etymologically v is most nearly related to u, w, f, b, p; as in vine, wine; avoirdupois, habit, have; safe, save; trover, troubadour, trope. See U, F, etc.
• As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin.
• being one more than four

Usage examples for V

1. V Bride is dead.  The New Book Of Martyrs by Georges Duhamel

2. In an English case, R. v.  Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents The Mazengarb Report (1954) by Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.

3. V " Whose writing is this?"  Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

4. 2; Lover’ s Complaint, v.  Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel