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Wikipedia

  1. Vail

    Vail is a home rule municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The population of the town was 4,835 in 2020. Home to Vail Ski Resort, the largest ski mountain in Colorado, the town is known for its hotels, dining, and for the numerous events the city hosts annually, such as the Vail Film Festival, Vail Resorts Snow Days, and Bravo! Vail.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vail

    same as Veil

  2. Vailnoun

    avails; profit; return; proceeds

  3. Vailnoun

    an unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall

  4. Vailnoun

    money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural

  5. Vailverb

    to let fail; to allow or cause to sink

  6. Vailverb

    to lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like

  7. Vailverb

    to yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like

  8. Vailnoun

    submission; decline; descent

  9. Etymology: [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.]

Wikidata

  1. Vail

    The Town of Vail is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The population of the town was 5,305 in 2010. The town was established and built as the base village to Vail Ski Resort, with which it was originally conceived. Vail Ski Resort's first season was in December, 1962 and it is the second largest ski mountain in North America.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vail

    vāl. Same as Veil.

  2. Vail

    vāl, v.t. to let fall.—v.i. to yield: to drop, move down.—n. (Shak.) submission, decline.—n. Vail′er. [Contr. from avale; cf. Avalanche.]

  3. Vail

    vāl′, v.i. (poet.) to profit, avail.—n.pl. Vails, money given to servants by a visitor—also Vales. [Contr. from avail.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. VAIL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vail is ranked #3385 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Vail surname appeared 10,554 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Vail.

    86.4% or 9,121 total occurrences were White.
    5.2% or 551 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    4.9% or 521 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 207 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 108 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 46 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for vail »

  1. vila

  2. vali

  3. vial

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vail in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vail in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of vail in a Sentence

  1. Ceil Folz:

    The budget for the whole event is almost $ 60 million, of which about 10 percent is on our television production, about 20 percent is all television and the rest kind of breaks down, about $ 40 million comes from outside of Vail Valley and $ 20 million came from within but we had much more than spent here just preparing for the championships, so we got an up-side before a single person took a turn on the course.

  2. Katie Baldassar:

    They clean hotel rooms over in Vail. They work construction over in Breckenridge, and they're experiencing the double-headed monster of food scarcity and obesity.

  3. Vail Chief Executive Rob Katz:

    In summer, Whistler is absolutely a leader in North America and we feel that adding that to Vail Resorts Inc certainly helps our summer revenue and profitability.

  4. Bede Jarrett:

    The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

  5. Volodymyr Knyr:

    If you're ugly, then vail not your eyes, but your veil.

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