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Wilderness Road

Wilderness Road proper noun: one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East — the other being the Cumberland Road. It made a long loop from Virginia southward to Tennessee and then northward to Kentucky, a distance of 200 miles (320 km).

Proper noun

the Wilderness Road

  1. (historical) One of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East — the other being the Cumberland Road. It made a long loop from Virginia southward to Tennessee and then northward to Kentucky, a distance of 200 miles (320 km).

Questions about Wilderness Road

What does Wilderness Road mean?
Wilderness Road means one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East — the other being the Cumberland Road. It made a long loop from Virginia southward to Tennessee and then northward to Kentucky, a distance of 200 miles (320 km).
What part of speech is Wilderness Road?
Wilderness Road is a proper noun.

Words near Wilderness Road in the dictionary

  1. wilderness
  2. wilderness camp
  3. wilderness camps
  4. wilderness program
  5. wilderness programs
  6. Wilderness Road
  7. wilderness therapies
  8. wilderness therapy
  9. wilderness treatment center
  10. wilderness treatment centers
  11. wildernesse

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