PENNINE CHAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pennine Chain mean? 

• PENNINE CHAIN (noun)
  The noun PENNINE CHAIN has 1 sense:

1. a system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south; forms the watershed for English rivers

  Familiarity information: PENNINE CHAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENNINE CHAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south; forms the watershed for English rivers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Pennine Chain; Pennines

Instance hypernyms:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Holonyms ("Pennine Chain" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)