Beckley (a city in southern West Virginia). Potomac; Potomac River (a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay).Holonyms (WV is a part of...):nstance hypernyms: American state (one of the 50 states of the United States). Meronyms (parts of WV): Monongahela; Monongahela River (a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River).