blue ridge

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsBlue Ridge Mountains

   Broaderrange

   Part ofAppalachiansPennsylvaniaVirginiaNorth Carolina

Questions about blue ridge

What does blue ridge mean?

blue ridge means "a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia".

What is another word for blue ridge?

Close synonyms include Blue Ridge Mountains. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue ridge a common word?

blue ridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.