PENNINES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pennines mean? 

• PENNINES (noun)
  The noun PENNINES 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: PENNINES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENNINES (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 ("Pennines" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)