Meanings
vera1
plural veras
- CockneyslangA skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
Has anybody got any veras? Lovely!
1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)
vera2
- uncountablebusinessA 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
Vera3
- 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 512 more examples
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 214Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science. It’s fitting that the first national US observatory named for a female astronomer is in her honor.
2020 January 7, Ashley Strickland, “First US observatory named in honor of a female astronomer, Vera Rubin”, in CNN
Vera4
- A surname from Spanish.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Origin
vera · noun
As vega, with the "g" substituted with a "r" to represent risk-free (interest rate).
Full word history & related roots →Vera · proper noun
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”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic فِيرَا, فِيرَا
- فِيرَا (verā)female given name
- فِيرَا (fīrā)female given name
Bulgarian Вя́ра
- Вя́ра (Vjára)female given name
Chinese Mandarin 薇拉
- 薇拉 (Wēilā)female given name
Czech Věra
- Věrafemale given name
Danish Vera
- Verafemale given name
Finnish Veera
- Veerafemale given name
French Vera, Véra
- Verafemale given name
- Vérafemale given name
German Vera
- Verafemale given name
Greek Βέρα
- Βέρα (Véra)female given name
Japanese ヴェラ
- ヴェラfemale given name
Latvian Vera
- Verafemale given name
Norwegian Vera
- Verafemale given name
Polish Wiara, Wiera
- Wiarafemale given name
- Wierafemale given name
Portuguese Vera
- Verafemale given name
Russian Ве́ра
- Ве́ра (Véra)female given name
Slovak Viera
- Vierafemale given name
Swedish Vera
- Verafemale given name
Ukrainian Ві́ра, Ве́ра
- Ві́ра (Víra)female given name
- Ве́ра (Véra)female given name
- Вє́ра (Vjéra)female given name
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with vera
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
vera. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vera
“vera.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vera. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vera,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vera.
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