Asheville
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A city, the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
"The recovery is still a work in progress, given the deadly storm’s massive impact on people across Western North Carolina and its devastation of two popular Asheville neighborhoods — the RAD (“rad”), as locals call it, and nearby Biltmore Village."
Example
More examples"The recovery is still a work in progress, given the deadly storm’s massive impact on people across Western North Carolina and its devastation of two popular Asheville neighborhoods — the RAD (“rad”), as locals call it, and nearby Biltmore Village."
Etymology
From Ashe + -ville, named after Samuel Ashe.
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