BLUE RIDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blue Ridge mean? 

• BLUE RIDGE (noun)
  The noun BLUE RIDGE has 1 sense:

1. a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia

  Familiarity information: BLUE RIDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE RIDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Holonyms ("Blue Ridge" 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)

Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Appalachian Mountains; Appalachians (a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States)