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Blacksburg

Blacksburg proper noun: a town in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Proper noun

Blacksburg

  1. A town in Montgomery County, Virginia.
    • Lead study author Derek Hennen is a self-proclaimed Swiftie and wanted to honor the singer. He was a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg at the time of the research.2022 April 20, Megan Marples, “Taylor Swift inspired an entomologist to name a new millipede species after the megastar”, in CNN
  2. A town in Cherokee County, South Carolina.

Origin of Blacksburg

From Black + -s- + -burg.

Questions about Blacksburg

What does Blacksburg mean?
Blacksburg means a town in Montgomery County, Virginia.
What part of speech is Blacksburg?
Blacksburg is a proper noun.

Words near Blacksburg in the dictionary

  1. blacks up
  2. blacksalter
  3. blacksalters
  4. blacksaunt
  5. Blacksboat
  6. Blacksburg
  7. blackseed
  8. blackseeds
  9. Blackshear
  10. Blackshears
  11. Blacksher

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