Vida
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Vida is a word meaning "life" in languages such as Occitan, Catalan
, Portuguese
and Spanish
. It is also a female given name. It may refer to:
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Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. It is also a female given name. It may refer to:
In sports:
- Club Deportivo y Social VidaClub Deportivo y Social VidaClub Deportivo y Social Vida, or simply Vida, is an Honduran football club based in La Ceiba, Atlántida. The club has been champion twice and runner up 3 times.-History:...
, a football team from Honduras
In arts and entertainment:
- Vida (album)Vida (album)Vida is the debut album of Argentine folk rock group Sui Generis, released on 1972.-Track listing:...
, a 1972 album by the Argentine musical group Sui Generis - Vida (novel)Vida (novel)Vida is a 1980 novel by Marge Piercy.The eponymous heroine is a 1960s Anti-war and pro-environmental activist who has in the modern day become part of an illegal underground revolutionary network which resembles the real Weatherman The story is told in the then present day and in flashback to the...
, a novel by Marge Piercy - Vida (film), a 1989 short subject filmmaker Lourdes PortilloLourdes PortilloLourdes Portillo is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created video installations and written for the stage...
- Vida (Occitan literary form)Vida (Occitan literary form)Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography, written in Old Occitan, of a troubadour or trobairitz.The word vida means "life" in Occitan languages. In the chansonniers, the manuscript collections of medieval troubadour poetry, the works of a particular author are often accompanied by a...
, the name of a medieval literary genre, a brief prose biography in Occitan of a troubadour or trobairitz - Vida TVVida TVVida TV is a Venezuelan community television channel. It was created in August 2003 and can be seen in the community of Ureña in the Pedro Maria Ureña Municipality of the Tachira State of Venezuela on UHF channel 51. Fernando Londoño is the legal representative of the foundation that owns this...
, a future television channel in Catalonia - VIDA.TV, social networking video site
In geography and toponymy:
- Lake VidaLake VidaLake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-round ice cover, and is considerably more saline than seawater...
, an ice-covered super-concentrated saltwater endorheic lake located in Victoria Valley, one of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica - Vida, OregonVida, OregonVida is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located on Oregon Route 126 and the McKenzie River.Vida was originally named "Gate Creek", but this caused confusion with a community of "Gates Creek" in Washington County, so the name of the postmaster's daughter was...
In business:
- Vida ABVida ABVida AB is the largest privately-owned sawmill group of Sweden with its approximately 1000 employees. The sawmills are strategically placed in near the huge forest areas in the province of Småland and the western Götaland province...
, Swedish sawmill company
It is the name of:
- Vida BlueVida BlueVida Rochelle Blue Jr. is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 17-year career, he pitched for the Oakland Athletics , San Francisco Giants , and Kansas City Royals He won the American League Cy Young award and Most Valuable Player Award in 1971...
(born 1949), former American Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher - Marco Girolamo VidaMarco Girolamo VidaMarco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida was an Italian humanist, bishop and poet. Born at Cremona, Vida joined the court of Pope Leo X and was given a prior at Frascati. He became bishop of Alba in 1532....
(1485? – 1566), Italian humanist, bishop, and poet - József VidaJózsef VidaJózsef Vida is a retired male hammer thrower from Hungary, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He set his personal best on July 4, 1999 in Tapolca....
(born 1963), Hungarian hammer thrower - Domagoj VidaDomagoj VidaDomagoj Vida is a Croatian football defender playing for Dinamo Zagreb. He can play in both centre back and right full back positions.-Career:...
(born 1989), Croatian association football player - Manchester United footballer Nemanja VidićNemanja VidicNemanja Vidić is a Serbian footballer who captains English Premier League club Manchester United. He was part of the Serbia national football team from 2002 to 2011....
's nickname