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Definition of Blue ridge mountains
1. Noun. A range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia.
Group relationships: Nc, North Carolina, Old North State, Tar Heel State, Keystone State, Pa, Pennsylvania, Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, Va, Virginia, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Ridge Mountains
Literary usage of Blue ridge mountains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... blue ridge mountains we a general southeast course, entering through wide-mouthed
harbors. The :e, Chowan, Tar and Neuse, draining the n section, ..."
2. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard (2005)
"It has two guest rooms and two guest suites, each with a private bath. The inn's
77-foot veranda overlooks the blue ridge mountains. ..."
3. History of the American War by Henry Charles Fletcher (1865)
"These two streams—they can scarcely be dignified by the name of rivers—rising in
the blue ridge mountains, unite about fifteen miles above Fre- ..."
4. Bulletin by Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, United States Weather Bureau (1912)
"The blue ridge mountains, it may be remembered, form a part of the Appalachian
system, which latter extends from Pennsylvania southwest to Georgia and ..."
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