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Chilterns

Chilterns proper noun: a geographic area and chalk escarpment in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, England; in full, the Chiltern Hills.

Proper noun

the Chilterns

  1. A geographic area and chalk escarpment in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, England; in full, the Chiltern Hills.

Questions about Chilterns

What does Chilterns mean?
Chilterns means a geographic area and chalk escarpment in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, England; in full, the Chiltern Hills.
What part of speech is Chilterns?
Chilterns is a proper noun.

Words near Chilterns in the dictionary

  1. Chiltern
  2. Chiltern Green
  3. Chiltern Hills
  4. Chiltern Hundreds
  5. Chiltern Valley
  6. Chilterns
  7. chiltes
  8. chilth
  9. Chiltiupán
  10. chiltoma
  11. chiltomas

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