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Definition of Blue Ridge
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
Literary usage of Blue Ridge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical by William Henry Foote (1855)
"As the beauty and fertility of the country, west of the Blue Ridge, became known
by hunters and explorers, Lord Fairfax naturally searched for the longest ..."
2. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"We dined at the house of a minister of the Methodist persuasion, an intelligent
man, living in a beautiful spot under the Blue Ridge, who entertained us ..."
3. Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1870)
"Expedition beyond the Blue Ridge. — The Valley of the Shenandoah. ... Their route
lay by Ashley's Gap, a pass through the Blue Ridge, that beautiful line of ..."
4. Contributions to Economic Geology (short Papers and Preliminary Reports) 1917 by F. L. Ransome, E F Burchard, Hoyt S Gale, Geological Survey (U.S.), David White, Geological Survey (U.S. (1918)
"Generalized structure section of the west front of the Blue Ridge and the adjacent
part of the Shenandoah Valley, showing the normal relations of the rocks ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"In the Blue Ridge Region covered by Harpers Ferry sheet, there is nothing in the
arrangement of the drainage or in the disposition of the contours which ..."
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