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pennines

pennines is the plural of pennine.

Meaning of pennine

Noun

pennine (countable and uncountable, plural pennines)

  1. Synonym of penninite.
    Synonyms:
    penninite

See all 3 meanings of pennine

Proper noun capitalized: Pennines

Pennines

  1. A mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.

Origin of pennines

Usually connected to the Italian Apennines, originally borrowed from Latin Apenninus by Latin scribes and subsequently losing its initial A by rebracketing or aphesis. Alternatively, possibly derived directly from a Celtic language; by surface analysis, Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”) plus -ine.

Questions about pennines

What does pennines mean?
Pennines means a mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.
What is pennines the plural of?
Pennines is the plural of pennine.
What part of speech is pennines?
Pennines is a proper noun.

Words near pennines in the dictionary

  1. Pennimans
  2. pennine
  3. Pennine Alps
  4. penninervation
  5. penninerved
  6. pennines
  7. penning
  8. Penning gauge
  9. Penning gauges
  10. penning in
  11. Penning trap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pennines (page history and authors); Pennines (page history and authors); pennine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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