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ASHEVILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asheville mean? 

ASHEVILLE (noun)
  The noun ASHEVILLE has 1 sense:

1. a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotteplay

  Familiarity information: ASHEVILLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ASHEVILLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Asheville" is a part of...):

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)


 Context examples 


I knew now why her face was familiar—its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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